Cyberhate: Bigotry and Prejudice on the Internet

The internet has been celebrated as providing a new world of democratic and creative expression. Has it also granted the purveyors of bigotry a new, efficient and unregulated conduit for their ideas? Has a change in technology engendered a change in politics or is the internet being used as simply the latest tool of established hate groups or? How should sites devoted to disseminating hate be regulated? or is regulation the greater evil? How can bigotry on the internet be attacked? Cyberhate will provide a forum for discussing these, and related, ideas.

Cyberhate: Bigotry and Prejudice on the Internet

A Conference jointly run by the Herbert and Valmae Freilich
Foundation and the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council

Location: The Australian Museum Theatrette,College Street, Sydney

More info: The internet has been celebrated as providing a new world of
democratic and creative expression. Has it also granted the purveyors of bigotry a new, efficient and unregulated conduit for their ideas?
Has a change in technology engendered a change in politics or is the internet being used as simply the latest tool of established hate groups or? How should sites devoted to disseminating hate be regulated? or is regulation the greater evil? How can bigotry on the internet be attacked?

Cyberhate will provide a forum for discussing these, and related,
ideas. Keynote speakers include:

Ken McVay, The Nizkor Holocaust Education Project (http://www.nizkor.org)
David Goldman, Hatewatch (http:// www.hatewatch.org)
Michael Whine, author of "The Far Right on the Internet,""The
Governance of Cyberspace : Racism on the Internet" and "Cyberspace :
A New Medium for Communication, Command and Control by Extremists."

Please visit our website for more information and for registration:

http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/freilich/cyberhate.htm

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