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[FYI] NYT: German Urges Global Rules on Hate on Web
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- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:03:25 +0200
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June 28, 2000
German Urges Global Rules on Hate on Web
By REUTERS
ERLIN, June 27 -- The justice minister called today for global rules
against hate speech on the Internet and urged stronger self-
regulation by Web companies. "What is forbidden off-line must be
forbidden online," the minister, Herta Daübler-Gmelin, told a
conference here. "Our goal must be to achieve a global value
consensus and to agree an international minimum level of regulation."
The associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles,
Abraham Cooper, said the explosion of extremist Web sites in the
United States proved the need for action. "We have gone from one hate
site on the Internet in 1995 to over 2,000," Mr. Cooper said. "There
are dozens of sites that teach people how to build bombs."
In Germany, the number of extreme right-wing home pages has jumped to
330, 10 times more than four years ago, the internal security
watchdog said. Germany was especially wary of abuse on the Internet,
she said.
Ms. Daübler-Gmelin welcomed the fact that Amazon.com had agreed to
stop selling Hitler's "Mein Kampf," which Germany has banned. She
added that the company should not sell the book anywhere.
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