Hate on the Internet
Karen R. Mock · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2000
The global reach and relative ease of use of the Internet make it a unique and highly effective tool for the promotion of human rights, enabling unprecedented audiences previously unexposed to human rights education to gain access to valuable information. Unfortunately, the features that make the Internet an asset to democracy and the realization of human rights, are the very characteristics that also render it an efficient and thereby dangerous tool for promoting hatred against identifiable minority groups. Hate mongers were among the first to realize the tremendous power of the Internet to spread their hateful messages and to recruit members to their hateful causes. As a result, the computer is replacing the more conventional modes of communication as the dominant conveyor of hate propaganda.1 It is now the medium of choice through which Holocaust denial and the most virulent forms of hate propaganda are transmitted, promoted and disseminated.