Since its earliest days, the internet has been hailed as a uniquely open marketplace of ideas, and it has become an essential means for people to access information and services. The downside of this is that, alongside its many valuable resources, the internet also offers a host of offensive materials – including hateful content – that attempt to inflame public opinion against certain groups and to turn people against one another. Media Smarts Online Hate
The digital world is a great place for users to access information, to share ideas and to communicate with each other. However, there is a downside in that it also provides a way for some to use it as a way to spread hate against certain individuals, groups, and to turn individuals against each other. This is a very sensitive subject and a topic that many people do not like to discuss. However, it is necessary that we are aware that these sites are out there, and you truly need to evaluate the sites and information that you are locating.
Hate and the Internet: Web Sites and the Issue of Free Speech
Watch the first segment of this program from 1998 discussing online hate. Amazing that we are watching an older discussion that is still so prevalent today.
Segment: Internet: Hate Messages (4.12 minutes)
Description: What is the price of free speech? Protected by their First Amendment rights and the Internet’s cultural philosophy of "post it all and let the readers decide," American hate groups are having a field day on the World Wide Web, creating virulent virtual communities of intolerance. An ABC News Production from 1998, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel investigates the proliferation of hate online with Don Black, founder of the white nationalist Web site Storm Front, and Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment attorney who has represented The New York Times and ABC News. Together they discuss both the medium and the message, plus the controversial issue of content filtering. What was current in 1998 still applies to today. Full run time for entire program: 21:17.
An ABC News Production.
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