"The Internet continues to be exploited by people who espouse hate in many different ways -- anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, racists, homophobes and terrorists," Wolf said on the opening day of the two-day event hosted by the French embassy.
Lauter cited the case of an Oklahoma woman who was shot dead this month, allegedly by a member of the white supremacist Ku Klan Klan, after being recruited through MySpace. The woman was killed after she apparently changed her mind and tried to flee a Ku Klux Klan initiation rite, according to police in Louisiana.
Blogs, social networks, video sites and instant messaging.. welcome to the 21st century. In today's Web 2.0, a world of mobile computing and always-on connectivity. IT has become a tool for love and for hate. For every site you try to close down due to the hate message, another is created instantenously. Sigh I feel so helpless and trapped in this IT world... a world that without it, might render me useless. I am addicted to what Web 2.0 can offer me, and saddened by the double edge sword that it posed. Interesting to note, a few days ago, I decided to reduce the information leakage in Facebook... time to remove more stuff..
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