hate site

It can be hard to determine exactly what qualifies as a hate site on the Internet.

Anyone who has sampled the hate sites on the Web cannot help but notice a striking thing.

As the Internet grows, so do hate sites, reaching potential numbers unthinkable just a few years ago.

But no matter how hate sites are defined, those who keep watch say the numbers are growing rapidly.

A website that uses hate speech is called a hate site.

In 1995, Black founded Stormfront, which was the internet's first major hate site, and remains one of the most popular.

It is widely considered a hate site.

Misty Lane, by her own admission, refers to her hate site as a "silly hobby."

The majority of the Orkut hate sites seem to be written in Portuguese, but many are written in English as well.

The difference, people who track hate sites point out, is that on-line hate propaganda can disguise itself more easily than bathroom graffiti and mimeographed pamphlets.

Rabbi Cooper said there were no threats that merited contacting law-enforcement officials or enough hate language to be listed on the institute's hate site list.

The Xanga Team has attempted to close such "hate sites" down, along with restricting members who misuse Xanga.

The organization's website was labeled as a hate site by several Hindu advocacy groups, such as the Hindu conference of Canada.

On the same day, the O'Reilly Factor referenced DontDateHimGirl as a "hate site."

I'm losing patience with this notion, surely one of the most successful media Big Lies of the past few years, that Charles runs a racist hate site.

In November 2007 the Chicago Tribune published an article on the hosting of hate sites in America, where they are protected by the First Amendment.

Rabbi Cooper said the Wiesenthal Center found twice as many hate sites last year, compared with the number found when it issued its first annual report in 1997.

But the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which also watches hate speech on the Internet, counted just 254 hate sites last year.

"Mainly we're reactive, rather than proactive, when it comes to these hate sites," said Mark J. Pincus, the chief executive of Tribe, based in San Francisco.

Young people exploring the Web can unsuspectingly log on to virulent hate sites, like those of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Aryan Resistance.

To the Editor: Abraham H. Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League suggests (letter, July 3) that something must be done about hate sites on the Internet.

But after three days of telephone calls between New York and Colorado, Mr. Johnson said, the company decided to pull the plug, saying that HinduUnity.org was a hate site.