The article circles around “a legal conference on hate crimes this week in Toronto, attended by senior judges, Crowns and defense lawyers, chiefs of police and politicians.”
The article starts:
“The Island of the White Supremacists is not, as it might sound, a Survivor-style reality show in extraordinarily poor taste.
It is more like a private video game, set in an imaginary tropical paradise in the online virtual world of Second Life, where "Internet neo-Nazis" gather around a digital tiki bar "for planning and plotting recruitment efforts and gatherings," according to an Ontario government hate crime expert.”
As it stands these “Internet neo-Nazis,” like many others, have found a fairly secretive place to carry out hate mongering, within the imaginary world of a video game that is. But what can be done about it?
Seeing as the internet, and Second Life in particular, are not technically under the jurisdiction of a single country or government for that matter, is there anything the government can and should be doing as a means to stop it?
A large part of that issue could lay within the fact that many government officials have no idea what Second Life is, or how to use it, however it is not the only form of social media that such hate mongering has been taking place.
What do you think the government should be doing to stop hate mongering within social media or if they should be doing anything at all?
I think there's something to be said for keeping the depraved members of society having an outlet in a fake world where they can't actually hurt anyone.
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