EFF "Censorship - `Hate-speech` & Discrimination" Archive

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960805_aui_v_uejf_netcensor.announce: the Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet (French Internet Users' Association) stronly criticizes UEJF (French Union of Jewish Students) misinformed legal action that attempts to hold ISP system operators liable for users' "hate speech".
hate_speech_aclu.article: ACLU statement on hate speech codes. The ACLU opposes measures taken to prevent hateful speech and explains why in this article.
holocaust_censorship_paper.draft: Paper by Avi-Jacob Hyman on how to deal with racist and holocaust-denial information on the internet and other electronic media.
telecom_hatecrime_ntia.rfc: Info on a National Telecommunications and Information Administration study on "hate crimes" and telecommunications, including BBSs. This is the NTIA's 1993 Request for Comments on the issue.
telecom_hatecrime_paper.eff: Detailed EFF position paper, sent as an open letter to NTIA, in response to an NTIA "Request for Comments" on a government study of "hate crimes" and the online world. EFF's paper makes it clear to NTIA that BBSs and other online media are protected by the 1st Amendment, and that focusing on online incidence of hate speech is wide of the mark when one is trying to reduce hate crimes.
violence_and_free_speech_aclu.article: Brief article tracing the history of the right to advocate violence or illegal activities.

HateWatch's investigative "Guide to Hate Groups on the Internet": Links to the home pages of groups who use the net to spread hate propaganda, their listservs and usenet groups and links to those who monitor these organizations. Also includes bibliography.