ADC applauds proposed web blackout for hate groups
Peter Kohn: Australian Jewish News | April 14, 2008
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=5253
CIVIL liberties arguments do not apply when extremist organisations use the internet to spread hatred, B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) chair John Searle said last week.
“Clearly a line has to be drawn between freedom of speech, voicing of differing opinions – and material that just incites racial hatred, religious intolerance and violence. When that line is crossed, that material ought not to be freely available to all who log onto the web.”
Searle was responding to protests voiced by civil libertarians …