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Killing the messenger, the medium, and the message:

The United States, after all, has free speech and little Internet censorship, explained Wiesenthal Center senior researcher Rick Eaton, who was involved in preparing the report.
'If you want to circumvent your own country's laws, you post it on an American server,' Easton said.
An international Jewish human rights organization, the Wiesenthal Center routinely complains to Internet companies when it discovers violent, hateful speech on their networks and has succeeded in getting thousands of such pages removed, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the center's Museum of Tolerance.
Recently, the center also has been intercepting an increased number of online tutorials and how-to manuals aimed not at the general public, but at sympathizers who might actually be recruited to carry out attacks.
Some of that material includes children's games urging kids to get involved in violent struggle against Israel and the west, including a puzzle showing a child throwing a rock at a tank.
The center passes most of that material on to law enforcement officials.

'We've now reached a point where the Internet is the cornerstone of terrorist groups,' Cooper said.

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A politician from the US Democrat party has lodged a lawsuit against search engine leader Google, alleging that the company profits from child pornography.
The Long Island based politician, Jeffrey Toback, claims that ads promoting child porn come up as a result some searches on the Google search site. He claims that Google

"continues to put its economic gains ahead of the interests and well-being of America's children"

in the suit.

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Masha Allen, a Russian-born 13-year-old girl, revealed to Congress the horrific pain behind those numbers in written testimony describing her experiences as a victim of online child pornography. The details were chilling.
Masha thought she was heading for a better life in America when she was adopted in 1998 by American Matthew Mancuso, who brought her to his home in Pittsburgh. Instead, she became a victim of child pornography.
While Masha is now safe and Mancuso is in prison, she told Congress's Energy and Commerce Committee at its fourth such hearing this year that her horror isn't over. "Because Matthew put my pictures on the Internet, the abuse is still going on," she told legislators in her testimony.

"You have to do something about the Internet,"

she wrote.

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