Exam 7: Illegal, Harmful and Offensive Content Online: From Hate Speech to the Dangers of Pornography

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles had documented the existence of 600 'hate sites' on the Internet. That number had risen to _______________ by 2010.?

_______________ is to make deliberately offensive or provocative statements or postings online specifically to upset or anger someone. Or, in other words, it is done for the "lulz."?

This U.S. court case provided a litmus test for obscene material: if the 'average' person finds that the work appeals to lustful interests in sex, or depicts sexual conduct as defined by state law, and lacks artistic value, then the state may consider the material 'obscene'.?

_______________, also known as "weev" is perhaps one of the most notorious "trolls" to date. He is the founder of the GNAA and Goatse Security.?

_______________ are responsible for the bulk of hate speech online.?

This is one of the earliest depictions of the human form which dates back between 24,000 and 22,000 BC. It is a statue of a women with large breasts and other exaggerated feminine features.?

_______________ is a term used to describe a group of men who believe they have been wrongfully deprived of sex by women and that they are the victims of an unfair distribution of sexual partners in society. Additionally, their language and beliefs take on heavy misogynistic overtones.?

Who are the 'Alt-Right' in the US?

Hate speech can be difficult to define. The United States, for example, qualifies hate speech as _______________.?

This individual was a student at the University of California, Irvine where he emailed 59 mainly Asian students asserting that he would kill them all.?

In the UK, all of the following legal provisions work to prohibit hate speech except for_______________.?

What was the website founded in 1996 by a former Ku Klux Klan leader, Don Black, which espoused white nationalist and white supremacist ideologies?

_______________ argued that the "answer to bad speech is more speech."?

Before this individual killed six people in a mass murder in Isla Vista in 2014, he posted a YouTube video filled with self-righteous anger stemming from a misogynistic view that women had 'forced' him to be celibate by refusing to have sex with him.?

In the US, laws which have attempted to curtail children's exposure to pornographic material have generally been struck down under this Constitutional Amendment.?

In their appeal to the younger generation, the 'Alt-Right' have begun to use memes, such as _______________, created by Matt Furie, in attempts to lure individuals into their movement.?

In the US, the only legal prohibitions against hate speech concern speech that _______________.?

Which of the following types of content are NOT protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.?