Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 12:36 AM
Question 3: The Internet is a place where hate groups come to inhabit. Discuss with relevant examples.
There are four types of crimes and social concerns on the internet, which are violence, pornography, social movements and activism, and hate crime. Hate crime is any criminal offence that is motivated by bias opinion, hostility and prejudice based upon to the victim’s. Nowadays, the internet has become a place that hate groups have come to inhabit in order to advertise and to use it to attack the group they target.
Why the internet has become a place where hate group gather? The first reason is the identity on the Internet is flexible, it means that the internet user can use fake identity or different identity on the internet for surfing the internet. For hate group members, they can use fake identity which is different than in real life to attack the person who they hate, they no need care about how about other see on them, because they are using fake identity, so no people will know who are them is real life. Therefore, they can voice out whatever they feel on the victims and they will not feel shame on their action.
Next, on Internet, it is offers equalization of status. It means that, no one will care who you are on internet, although you are public figures. They will judge you by your skin color, race, status, occupation and others. For example, in United States there happen racist anti-black. Then, they create a hate group for discuss their target and even attack them by some rude word. The hate group member judges them by skin color, and don’t care who they are and where are they come from.
Besides that, the internet also allows for loose self boundaries. Nobody control the internet and the users, thus the users can behave like what they want and want to do. Nobody control the hate group, so group members have behaved like what their view to their target and just voice it out. For example, the sexual orientation hate group members just voice out their unlikely feeling on the internet hate group, because nobody control it. They can voice out what they want to say and what they like.
Nowadays, many people have relied on the internet already. Some of them cannot live without computer and internet. This can prove that our life is related with the internet. People are more likely to share their feeling on the internet more than on real life. Therefore, internet is a place to let them voice up their feeling, who they hate, why they hate and others. In this place, they also can find some people who have same feeling with them and they can be together sharing their point of view together. For example, the person is not really want to share with her friend what is her point of view to the disable people, because she scare her friend will feel shame on her because she do not have sympathy on disable people. But, on the internet, she can just share everything about what her point of view to disable people, because in the group, everyone also has the same target with her.
There are four main types of hate crime on the internet, which are including disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, and transgender. Disability hate crime is a criminal offence motivated by prejudice or bias opinion towards a person because of their disability. For example, there are some disability hate group on internet attack the victim because they think that disabled people bringing many inconvenient to them in real life and some of them think that they are useless too.
Religious hate crime is criminal offence motivated by prejudice towards the people because of their religion and beliefs. For example, a group of people created a hate group named “Anti Islamic” on internet. In this group, all the members are dislike the people who believes to Islam and discuss some relevant topics based on Islam practice and attack the religious and people in the group. A lot of people will think that their own religious is the best religion, they anti other religion and prejudice other is worse than them. (Anon, 2010)
Besides that, sexual orientation hate crime is criminal offence motivated by prejudice towards a person because of their sexual orientation which is including gay and lesbian. For example, there are many hate group is about ‘Anti gay and lesbian”, some of the people will attack the identity of the people such as gay should not appear in this world. They will think that the gay and lesbian is different than normal people, they cannot accept them be a part or friend to them, so there are many hate group on internet to discuss sexual orientation this topic.
Lastly, transgender hate crime is the people hate and prejudice to a person based on their gender such as transgender. They cannot accept them be a part of normal people, they think that they are different of them. For example, in transgender hate group, the members said that transgender not like girl and not like boy, they should not live in this world. They cannot accept that the people change their sexual.
At a conclusion, all people have the human right, and we cannot prejudice to the people by their special identity and hate them someone attack them because they are different from normal people. In this world, all people is the same.
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