Jun 10
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Richard Warman appears to want Canada to be a police state
Just take note of his comments to the Montreal Gazette in response to two arrests made in Quebec over hate propaganda.
Read the complete article here.
Montreal Gazette – June 20, 2010
Online hate leads to two arrests
By Anne Sutherland
Provincial police made two arrests this week in cases in which the Internet became the conduit of hate propaganda. On Tuesday, officers of the Surete du Quebec arrested a 17-year-old man in Sept Iles who was allegedly using a Facebook page to disseminate hate against specific ethnic communities. On Thursday, they arrested a 28-year-old in Trois Rivieres who was allegedly using You-Tube videos to propagate his messages. …
Human rights lawyer Richard Warman said it was only a matter of time before hate propaganda moved to popular sites like Facebook and YouTube. “Social media have become an essential part of people’s lives and hate-mongers are using that forum,” Warman said. …
Warman said he would like to see Facebook and YouTube monitor the pages under their names more carefully. Facebook does have a report button for users to flag particularly offensive material, but with an estimated half a billion users, some questionable sites slip through. “If a service provider knows that a site like this exists, they should be held accountable for not taking steps to stop it,” Warman said. He said if a citizen comes across a hate propaganda site, they should contact the police, in particular the SQ hate crimes unit. “In my dealings with the SQ, they have been very solid,” Warman said.