By Barnaby Page , TechWeb News Hate groups are increasingly using the World Wide Web to promote racist and extremist views, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The number of websites promoting hate has more than doubled in the last year, from about 1,400 to more than 3,000, according to the center's associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper. And much of that growth has been in the United States, where First Amendment protections allow material that would be illegal in many European countries, Cooper says. The findings come as Yahoo Inc.
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Amazon, Seattle, responded by saying it would not ship Mein Kampf to customers outside the United States. That report prompted Yahoo, Santa Clara, Calif., to remove 39 hate groups, including some using the name of the Ku Klux Klan, from its service. Los Angeles' Simon Wiesenthal Center, named after the famous Nazi hunter, tracks the activities of hate groups worldwide and operates lobbying and educational programs. All at your fingertips, all in TechEncyclopedia.