MDI Annual Report 2005

The MDI comprises a 2005 1289 notifications received a total of 1308 unique manifestations of discrimination on the Internet. In 2004 was the number of reports it received higher MDI: 1812. The year 2004 was the aftermath of the murder of Van Gogh hindsight an outlier. In the period shortly after the murder of Van Gogh was the internet full of hate speech, from people who felt that Islam should be halted, as people expressed their joy were on the murder of Van Gogh and glad that the jihad in the Netherlands "had begun. In addition, there was 2004 three talk of widespread extreme right sent email, or spam. This spam runs were 2004 responsible for several hundred reports. In 2005 was only sent once far-right spam widely. The report has since 1 January 2005 a new registration with 'unique' statements recorded. The starting point is how often the expression is found at a specific location on the internet and not how often a manifestation reported in MDI. This is means that if the number of utterances lower than before. For example, it appears that spam with a discriminatory content to a large number of email addresses is sent simultaneously. In that case, several people set the MDI accordingly. Previously, each separately receive email was registered as a separate expression. In the new system is based on the so-called "unique uiting'2. That makes comparing figures over the past years difficult.

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