Judar som vill förinta yttrandefriheten

The French President said Tuesday that the governments need to lay down and enforce rules in the digital world, as he was addressing the so-called e-G8 conference. Nicolas Sarkozy said a "balance" is needed to be struck to prevent misuse of the Internet and to boost its potential as a tool for economic growth.

Jews in Spain view with extreme concern the fact that the Spanish judiciary, so sensitive in certain situations, does not consider as criminal conduct the sale of books denying the Holocaust and promoting racism, in spite of standing criminal legislation to the contrary,” the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain said in a statement.

The Israeli Embassy in Madrid in a statement said that Israel was ”sad and concerned” to hear of the acquittals, ”allowing for the circulation of books that incite hate and deny the Holocaust.”

We are writing to you to protest Facebook’s policy that categorizes Holocaust denial as “free speech,” rather than the shameless, cynical and hateful propaganda that it is. [...]

As individuals who are both victims of and witnesses to the truth of the horrors and hate of that time period, we are deeply hurt and offended by your policy that protects Holocaust denial as speech. [...]

The SWC has assured us that Facebook is a company with integrity, a company that is willing to live up to its moral and social responsibilities, as you have done in the past by removing hateful postings. Therefore, we have chosen to write to you, under the good auspices of the SWC & MOT, and appeal to you, both individually and collectively, to reevaluate your existing policy. Do not permit Holocaust denial any platform on Facebook to preach its inherent message of lies and hate.

Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust affiliated with the Simon Wiesenthal Center have launched a plea to FACEBOOK to deny access to their powerful social networking platform to anyone promoting denial of history’s most document crime.

– Det är själva innehållet de tar del av som förändrar deras synsätt, säger Jared Cohen, chef för Google Idea, till SVT.

Samtidigt vill inte företaget vara del i att censurera nätet. Istället hoppas man kunna göra skillnad genom att påverka vilka sökresultat som kommer högt i sökningarna.

– Mobiler och datorer är något som fylls med innehåll. Vill vill att de trovärdiga rösterna som finns på internet, de som hoppat av, de som drabbats och de som arbetar mot extremism ska vara dominerande, säger Jared Cohen.

Facebooks marknadsdirektör Randi Zuckerberg har i ett uttalande tagit ställning mot internetanonymitet och för myndigheters möjlighet att spåra alla internetuppkopplingar.

-Anonymiteten på nätet måste försvinna, sa hon i förra veckan vid ett rundabordssamtal om nätmobbing. Folk uppför sig mycket bättre när de använder sina riktiga namn.