Rise recorded in Web sites pushing hate, violence - The Washington Times: Business - May 07, 2004

Web sites featuring hateful rhetoric and calls for violence have spiked to record levels this year as extremist groups issue their messages to coincide with world events. The number of sites advocating hate or depicting violence rose from 8,667 at the end of 2003 to 10,926 at the end of April 2004, according to SurfControl Inc., a Scotts Valley, Calif., Web-filtering company. It's the largest increase in such sites seen by SurfControl over an entire year. Hate and violence sites are showing up on the Internet at a faster rate than pornography.