The Internet in many ways is a virtual extension of the real world, a place where people gather, engage in commerce and acquire knowledge. It is also a place exploited by stalkers, thieves and terrorists. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in New York and Los Angeles has identified thousands of websites, blogs, and social networking pages that it says directs online hate.
The New Year’s Day bombing of a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt was preceded a month earlier by an online warning of an attack if Catholics did not intervene in the Christian-Muslim dispute in Egypt.
And a deadly rampage at a U.S. Army base in Texas in November 2009 was followed by online praise for the alleged gunman b
