With the expiration of the years you sometimes see people come to the surface in the far-right scene, where you do not really expect. Age plays in these cases it is often an important role. Many groups with an obstinate character (think of criminals) The age of participants is usually limited to between 15 in the 25. Ook… Read more
Since the second half of the nineties, the Internet develops at a rapid pace. For anyone who wants it is possible to be connected to the world wide web. Rapid technological advances since its inception in 1997 also affect (been) on the work of the Internet Discrimination Hotline (MDI). In the early years the MDI received only a few reports, recent years that number was well above the thousand. From these reports over the years, a number of trends observed. One is a rapid increase in the number of reports of discrimination on interactive Internet, such as discussion forums
and interactive blogs. A second trend is the high number of criminal Without prejudice expressions on extreme right websites. This finding is supported by a recent report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe (ECRI), which shows that in the Netherlands the main growth of right-wing extremism, especially among young people, place in non-political movements that informal, primarily through digital means of communication, organized. These data have to do MDI prompted research into the extent and nature of the extreme right on the Dutch part of the Internet, with a focus on the discriminatory content on these websites.
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