Leaders of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center have asked Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini to support measures aimed at barring cyberspace to racists and extremists.
The Wiesenthal Center delegation was in Rome last week for the opening of the preliminary court hearing of former Nazi Erich Priebke, who was extradited to Italy from Argentina Nov. 21 to face war crimes charges.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, noted that because Italy would be assuming the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union starting Jan. 1, the delegation came to meet with Dini to “talk about the infiltration of the Internet by racist groups.”
Cooper said extremist groups regularly circulate not only expressions of racial hatred on the Internet, but also post instructions on how to build bombs as well as other dangerous practical information. “The formula for Sarin poison gas was on the within days of the terrorist attack” in Japan’s subway, Cooper said.
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