For more on this specific issue, see “Countering Cyberhate: More Regulation or More Speech?
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/sum98cacas.html and “Racism and Racial Discrimination on the Internet, at http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/10/c/racism/guzman.htm. In Canada a piece of federal legislation, The Sentencing Reform Bill (C-41) is a penalty enhancement provision, similar to those in the United States, that allows for increased sentences when a crime is committed because of someone’s nationality, color, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, or sexual orientation. In addition Canada has far more expansive hate speech laws that are common to other Western nations with less stringent protections of free speech. Section 318 of the Canadian Criminal Code criminally punishes those who “advocate genocide” on the basis of color, race, religion or ethnic origin. Section 319 (1) punishes those who incite hatred on the basis of color, race, religion or ethnic origin where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace.” Section 319(2) of the Canadian Criminal Code p
