Tackling racist and xenophobic internet contents

Policy Response DateJune 27, 2007 Country: Portugal Address: Portugal General Type: Racist discourse Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Inter-ethnic, On grounds of other belief
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Internet Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Internet

The website Linha Alerta [Alert Line] is part of a combined project – awareness node and hotline service – called Internet Segura and co-funded until December 2010 by the European Commission under the Safer Internet plus program. The hotline service is maintained by the Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional [National Foundation for Scientific Computation] (FCCN). Their objective is to block illegal content on the internet, by providing the law enforcement agencies with information that facilitates the elimination of those contents and the identification of the responsible for those materials. Citizens can report on illegal contents either through the hotline or through the website http://linhaalerta.internetsegura.pt/index.php. Among the illegal contents is “Incitement to racial hatred”. By the end of 2007 and since the activation of the website in June of that year, 33 websites with racist and xenophobic contents were identified.

Source:
CICDR (Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination)  http://www.cicdr.pt/content/view/18/16/