News: HUD takes full aim at Internet hate
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development Thursday announced
that -- together with a coalition of Internet, civil rights, religious
and community organizations, and members of the business community --
it will lead a national effort to fight hate and discrimination on the
Internet.
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To help launch the national fight against online hate and
discrimination, HUD will donate $200,000 to create a task force
charged with designing strategies to reduce hate and discrimination on
the Internet while preserving free speech. The task force will hold
public meetings around the country to develop a plan of attack.
HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo also said the department would reopen an
investigation of the United Klans of America and the alleged former
Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon on charges of housing
discrimination.
"Housing discrimination is just as illegal in cyberspace as it is in
our cities, our suburbs and our rural areas," Cuomo said. "The
Internet is not sanctuary from the rule of law."
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