The rise of Hate 2.0

The number of hate and terrorist websites has increased by a third in the past year, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

The Los Angeles-based Jewish human rights organisation put the figure at more than 8,000 in its 2008 report Hate 2.0. It said the presence of such sites “demeans and threatens African Americans, Jews, immigrants, gays and virtually every religious denomination”.
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“Holocaust denial is a perfect example of how a hateful idea was incubated on the internet. It promotes hatred, it promotes violence and it’s a kind of precursor to genocide.
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Some groups advocate direct action against Holocaust denial sites

“It’s not the idea that needs to be scrubbed; it’s fact that the internet elevates crackpot theories to a level it doesn’t deserve.

“These sites aren’t about the discussion of ideas; they are about getting people to subscribe to the ideal of hate.”