FC: Canada's B'nai Brith calls for Net-censorship after attacks

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46861,00.html

   Attacks Spur Canada Web Concern
   By Charles Mandel
   2:00 a.m. Sep. 15, 2001 PDT

   TORONTO, Canada -- The Jewish group B'nai Brith Canada is calling for
   stricter regulation of hate-related material on the Internet following
   Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

   The executive vice president of B'nai Brith Canada, Frank Dimant,
   alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian
   Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in late August about a posting on
   a website that originated out of Montreal and invited people to join
   Afghani terrorist camps linked to Osama bin Laden, according to B'nai
   Brith Canada.

   Now, especially after media reports have suggested that Montreal and
   Halifax may have been meeting points for a number of the terrorists
   involved in the attack, B'nai Brith Canada is stepping up its efforts
   to get legislation passed to ban such Web activity.

   [...]




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