Tribunal fines man for online hate speech

In a decision released Jan.9th, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal fined a B.C. man $6,000 and ordered him to stop spreading hate via the Internet. The Tribunal found that  the now-defunct website bcwhitepride.com "discriminates against a wide range of people, and encompasses comments that are vicious and dehumanizing, especially with respect to the disabled, a particularly vulnerable group."  The case was prompted by a 2003 complaint by the Montreal-based Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations.