Africa/Global: Conference Probes Online Bigotry

European and US officials and industry professionals will meet to discuss ways of tackling the proliferation of racist, xenophobic and anti-semitic materials via the Internet, blamed for a rising tide of hate-crimes. Delegates at the meeting, held at the initiative of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the French government, hope to find ways to trace the authors of racist propaganda, without reining in online freedoms.