Internet racists

[Jazzy]

With Hitler and holocaust among the top 35 key words used on Twitter over the summer, it was decided that something needs to be done about online race hate.

So a group of MPs has called for those peddling to be given internet Asbos.

They would affect people using the likes of Facebook and Twitter and could lead to legislation similar to that which restricts sex offenders’ access to the internet.

The all-party panel reports that there was a rise in incidents against Jews and found that the practice is growing online.

The report said: ‘Given the scale of social media content produced on a daily let alone minute by minute basis, we have some albeit limited sympathy for the companies that are responsible for hosting it.

‘Whilst there is rightly an expectation on those companies to act as there is on government, police and prosecuting authorities, so too civil society has a crucial role to play.’

Last week figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST) – a charity that monitors anti-Semitism and provides security for the Jewish community in Britain – showed there were a record number of anti-Semitic hate incidents in the UK last year.

Data from the Metropolitan Police supplied to the panel showed that there were 306 anti-Semitic incidents and 236 offences in London between April and November last year.

The issue has come under renewed scrutiny following the Paris terror attacks in which a Jewish supermarket was targeted.

Other proposals in the report include:

Setting up a government fund to cover the costs of security at synagogues.

Carrying out fresh research on identifying and explaining anti-Semitic themes in language.

Establishing on independent council on anti-Semitism.

Providing guidance for teachers on handling the Middle East conflict in the classroom.
Labour MP John Mann said: ‘This report is a plan of action and a work programme for parliament and government.

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[DrLeftover]

Part of the ignorance here is the politicians and social do-gooders thinking that 'banning' somebody is going to work.

I guess they never heard of 'anonimizers', proxies that you can go through, or even install on your own machine, to conceal everything up to and including your IP address.