Muslim cartoon case fails to reach Denmark’s top court: “Muslim cartoon case fails to reach Denmark’s top court AFP Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 COPENHAGEN – Denmark’s justice ministry rejected Tuesday a bid by seven…
SPLCenter.org: England: “Extremist U.K. Fugitives Arrested in U.S.” Intelligence Report, Fall 2008 Two men fled to the United States after they were found guilty in England of publishing Holocaust denial and racist tracts online, including…
French Jewish group to sue YouTube: AFP, Thursday, August 14, 2008. PARIS – A French Jewish group said Thursday it is suing the YouTube video-sharing website over a clip showing a host of Jewish public…
Canadian Human Rights Commission Launches Independent Review On Hate Messaging on the Internet (Ottawa, June 17, 2008) – The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has launched a comprehensive policy review of how best to address…
American Exception – Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech – Series – NYTimes.com: By ADAM LIPTAK, Published: June 12, 2008 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine…
The case for censoring hate: Mark Freiman, an expert on Canadian hate-speech law, defends Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 In 2002, Canada’s legal system finally…
Bits: Tracking Hate 2.0 on the Web: The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, says the number of online hate sites has jumped 30 percent in the last year. At the briefing, Rabbi…
An Advocacy Handbook for the Non Governmental Organisations: The Council of Europe’s Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and the additional protocol on the criminalisation of acts of a racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, Cyber-Rights.Org,…
Blogger fined for ‘menacing’ rant: “A man who ‘let off steam’ on his blog about police is convicted of posting a grossly offensive and menacing message.” The offender was fined £150 with £364 costs by…
Cartoons of a Racist Past Lurk on YouTube – New York Times: “” Published: April 28, 2008 Among the millions of clips on the video-sharing Web site YouTube are 11 racially offensive Warner Brothers cartoons…