Hate Propaganda In Cyberspace: Censorship, Freedom Of Speech, And Critical Surfing
Hate Propaganda in Cyberspace: Censorship, Freedom of Speech, and Critical Surfing
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to address a number of issues regarding ever-growing hate propaganda in cyberspace. First, I discuss why and how the Internet has become the propaganda venue of hate groups. Second, I discuss how the Internet has facilitated a major shift in the demographics of the target audience for hate groups. Third, I discuss how practical or impractical an option of censorship is in regulating cyberspace. Finally, I discuss what necessary tools educators and parents can provide children to discern good information from bad information so that they are able to make intelligent and informed decisions about cultural tolerance and intolerance. I argue that as we teach our children to recognize and deal with social evils in the real world, we should teach them to do the same in cyberspace.
Introduction
The development of cyberspace has fundamentally changed the way in which society communicates. The availability of the Internet ? a backbone connecting millions of computers all over the world and millions of individual subscribers ? has created the information superhighway unbounded by any physical and non-physical barriers. The Internet is considered as one of
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