The Right to Sell Hate
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Yahoo reopens a 5-year-old case that banned the selling of Nazi memorabilia on its auction site. Also: Dell leads in computer sales despite tax levies&hellip;.  Europe still watching what Microsoft does&hellip;. and more.
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LONDON, Jan 29 (IPS) - The European Parliament passed a unanimous   resolution this week urging a Europe-wide ban on incitement to  racial and  religious hatred. That specifically could include a  ban on the swastika,  the symbol adopted by the Nazis.
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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Comment is free: Peter Tatchell: Radio 1 needs to develop a consistent policy to cover all forms of bigoted language in song lyrics
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â¢ Hating the other guy feels good, but it&#39;s a poor substitute for policy positions. John Kerry had some plausible policies, but for two years the Democratic Party&#39;s campaign has been based on &quot;anybody but Bush.
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Antispam activists disagree about the effect of the major federal court judgment against three spammers. Antispam activists disagree about whether a $1.08 billion judgment against three spammers in Iowa last
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Business & money: Which? calls for offenders to be named and shamed.
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Compulsory registrations unpopular too Online tat-house eBay has enraged some of its regular users by banning negative feedback about sellers and a demand that anyone flogging more than a certain amount from the UK must register as a business.â¦
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I'm a contrarian. It's natural. It's what happens when you're born black and male in New Orleans. You grow up questioning authority and challenging conventional wisdom. It's both a mode of survival and a disease. I have it bad. I'm addicted to argument.
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Cases like this embolden extremists and provide them an opportunity to advocate for their worldview.
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A German court today sentenced infamous Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to five years in prison for holding a particularly unpopular opinion.  The irony of jailing people for their beliefs in the name of fighting the neo-Nazi movement seems to be lost on most of the western world, including Canada, which jailed Zundel for two years in a maximum security facility before deporting him to Germany.  Many organizations, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, applaud the decision, but sadly lacking is a sense of outrage over the blow that this decision strikes against free speech.  Whatever happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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By JAMES HARPER  A LOYALIST soccer yob has posted a vile racist video on the internet.   Twisted Mark Stoddart has sickened fans of the popular YouTube website by posting up a homemade video poking fun at a disabled Asian man in Glasgow.
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As the court case between US Internet giant Yahoo and a French group trying to halt the online sales of Nazi memorabilia entered a new phase this week, experts gathered here stressed how difficult it was to regulate hate speech on the Internet.
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The bomb attack that killed 10 people at a Moscow market is thought to be a race hate crime.
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The Media and Society Research Group of Cornell University conducted a survey in November of Americans with respect to their attitudes towards Muslims.  Nearly half (44%) of respondents favored restricting the civil rights of Muslims in some way.    The press release, with links to the report, is available at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&amp;STORY=/www/story/12-17  -2004/0002639656&amp;EDATE=
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