But black-hearted, violent crimes are beginning to take hold on the Internet. What come to mind first are Web sites that excite people to violence. Usually, they focus on racial or ethnic hatred. Sometimes they draw the lines along sexual, religious, or political differences. They generate violence through intolerance.
More states are including in their anti-stalking statutes online contact.
Harassment by means of e-mail, chat rooms, BBS postings, and Web page links continue to rise. Persons finding romantic companionship in cyberspace are sometimes starting relationships they cannot get out of when things start to sour. Cyberspace becomes an instrument of fear. In a world where the Internet makes it easier to cheat on one's spouse or lover, the medium may produce the motive for violent crime. For example, a husband discovers his wife's e-mails to an online lover.