BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Born in 1973, for the last 10 years he has been dealing with the issues of racism and neo-nazism in the Internet under the NEVER AGAIN Association. He has been in charge of the campaign "racism delete" (among others); he also prepares and edits a web page of the association: www.nigdywiecej.org and is the author of publications on racism and neo-fascism.

ABSTRACT

30 September, Wednesday, 14.30 - 16.30

Parallel session: Law enforcement session
Presentation topic: Hate speech on the Internet

Racist, anti-Semite, xenophobic or event neo-Nazi content is present and easily accessible on the Internet. Perhaps they are not the greatest of the Internet-related threats, so they are often ignored as actually harmless or hardly noticeable. But Internet auctions are a source where one can by any propaganda materials, since the administrators of a given service have decided that the items do not promote any ideology. Nearly every social group is abused by comments that may be read on Internet forums. Examples are in abundance. As the technology, and most importantly the fad for open, interactive forms of contact develop, the phenomenon gains in force. As a consequence, the dialogue-based formula of the Web, shaping the direct relations between its users, gives way to conflict. It seems that in the case of many types of content (unless it may be deleted altogether), children should be unconditionally protected against it, as such content presents a false and biased picture of the world based on conflict and distaste, on humiliating other human beings. The aim of our lecture will be to show and analyze selected examples of racist content. The findings are based mainly on the web monitoring carried out, for 10 years now, within the framework of the RACISM DELETE campaign by the Never Again Association. Threats posed by sites of this type, affecting mainly children, will be shown. The Association’s attempts to counteract this type of content will be described as well, just as will be the actions that we promote and could improve the level of Web safety.