How is it being used? What values does it convey for dialogue? What counter-values show its dangers and its limits? What role can we play to curb the messages carried by Internet that undermine human dignity and jeopardise any possibility of dialogue? All these questions were entrusted to CRIF researcher Marc Knobel at a meeting of the UNESCO-NGO Joint Programmatic Commission for Dialogue between cultures and building peace, meeting at UNESCO in Paris.
Marc Knobel is also asking the authorities to set up an observatory of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia on Internet, with a remit for specific identification and monitoring of such deviances. This request has received the support of the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH) which was received by the Prime Minister François Fillon.
For some years now, Internet has witnessed “an explosion of racist, anti-Semitic and jihadist propaganda”, according to Marc Knobel, a leading international specialist in this field and a researcher for CRIF, who is responsible for a specific study of this phenomenon in the CNCDH report. This raises the question of what monitoring and repressive instruments can be implemented by the State to counter this phenomenon.
All too often, Internet users do not know who to turn to to signal such racist facts. The existing portal set up to signal such infringements essentially deals with paedophilia related issues.
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