Racists, crusader stuck in a hate-hate relationship September 20, 2008 at 1:37 AM EDT
After notching a 16th human-rights tribunal spawned by his relentless activism, Richard Warman bête noire of the extreme right worried aloud that he can never hope to cleanse the Internet of hate speech.
It's a little bit like counting the rats in the New York City sewers, said Mr. Warman, a one-man crusade to eradicate racists and neo-Nazis from cyberspace. You never know whether you are seeing the same rats or whether it is a new one that has stuck its head out the hole.
His latest target, webmaster Marc Lemire, ended a four-year battle this week to fend off a Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint. Mr. Lemire, whose website allegedly posted material that ridiculed Jews, blacks, Italians, homosexuals and other groups, has objected often and strenuously to being entangled in a web of costly litigation by Mr. Warman.
Mr. Lemire's supporters concur. In the free-speech community, Warman is detested as a fanatic who seeks to ruin peoples' lives by CHRC complaints, Criminal Code complaints and efforts to cost dissidents their jobs, Paul Fromm, a fixture of the extreme right, said in an interview.
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