The internet is an amazing place to get your hate on.
Once the internet crawled out of its DARPA roots and in to the real world, thirteen year-olds reveled in their new found possibilities: access to playboy and the ability to question the sexuality of strangers whilst boasting that they were 25, ripped and drove a Porsche.
Meanwhile, Intelligence organizations worldwide drooled at the possibilities for information sharing, hackers pulled off daring hacks in a virtually undefended cyberspace, and haters discovered that they could let everybody know, how much they're gonna hate.
Twisted tongues of hate and malice are now available within the comfort of your own homes. One can now bypass the "propaganda" of the mainstream news, and hear it straight from the guerrillas' tongue.
Case in point: Kavkaz Centre. http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/
The true news from within the Chechen Emirate.
Wait, what? I will remind those whom are uninformed. There is no Chechen Emirate. This website speaks for the self proclaimed Emirs of Chechnya, land Internationally recognized as Russian Soil.
The website's language is intense and intentional. the Russian Secret Service is labeled terrorists and articles throughout the website label Russian police as puppets.
The Chechen Mujaheddin aren't the only extremist group with a website showering them with praise: Al Qaeda has many official and unofficial sites across the internet where they offer press releases and new video footage of their latest threats, and white supremacist organisation websites number in the thousands. One of the largest being http://www.stormfront.org/forum/, a forum for those sympathetic to the cause. At the time of this writing, Stormfront has 195,028 members, and 7,003,172 posts have been made to this discussion board.
Now let's have a look at the Australia First Party, a self admitted "Australian Nationalist Party". Reading their website, they're slowly tiptoeing the line between nationalist, and white nationalist. Actually, scratch that. They're just plan hateful. The articles throughout their website encourage us to claim back our country from "boat people invasion" and there is even a link for an unfinished web page entitled "Overseas students go home!" Wow. Just, wow.
Clearly, the Australia First Party is the White Australia policy modernized to have a southern cross tattoo and thongs, still clinging to the ideas that cultures are so incredibly different that its not possible for us to live together. "The protests of Indian students in Australia against a climate of violence and robbery have highlighted to all the corrosive quality of multiculturalism as an ideology and of the multi-culti society in practice." Question to Australia First: maybe if people with anti multi-cultural views kept it to themselves, parts of the community wouldn't dub their Friday and Sunday nights "smash a curry night" which was a lovely conversation i was subjected to on a train in to Flinders Street Station by a drunken lout.
So in closing, before the internet could stand, haters could get their hate on and unfortunately, in the unregulated state of the internet, this is something that will continue until the death of the free internet.
Does this mean that we need to regulate the internet? That's a whole other pile of plums. Do we censor billions because of a few thousand louts?
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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