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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : [Congressional Sales Office, Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor], 2001. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)46938771 Subject: Hate crimes -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 mission. This knowledge ' ' vacuum ' ' makes any threat received over the Internet par-ticularly disturbing to the victim. Finally, because an electronically transmitted message arrives directly on the vic-tim's computer screen, usually with a ring or other audio cue, the message is much more invasive than traditional mail. Regular mail is delivered in a mail box. Elec-tronic mail flashes onto a computer screen at the victim's work station, her home, her bedroom, her children's room * * * wherever the victim's terminal happens to be. There is thus no question that this new mode of transmitting thoughts, knowl-edge, and ideas, while having great potential and tremendous advantages over tra-ditional methods of communication, also presents a new and serious challenge to law enforcement authorities with regard to those that would abuse the technology. The Inherent nature of Internet hate crime investigations and prosecutions also demands that Federal investigators and prosecutors assume an active role in bring-ing hate criminals to justice for several reasons. First, oftentimes, as with the Cal State-Los Angeles case, the sender transmits hate mail across State lines to victims throughout the country. Second, investigators must have expertise in computer crimes and sufficient resources in order to track the sender of the electronic trans-missions and recapture any similar messages sent from the sender's computer - the FBI, for example, has the expertise in its computer crimes units. Finally, as with both the UC-Irvine and Cal State cases, in order to obtain locator information about the sender and potential victims, one must have the capability to subpoena Internet service providers - quite often those providers reside outside the state in which the transmiss
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Hate crime on the internet: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress
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