http://www.soulforce.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2242

On this page, the author of the thread talks about a local radio show that is always “ranting about Sodomites”. The thread continues with replies from various people who try to console the original poster by offering advice on how to deal with the radio station by calling the advertisers, producers, local LGBT groups, etc. This page is important because it shows how hate speech directly affects people on a personal basis and what there response can be.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/11/56294

This article refers to 2002 when British parliament passed a bill outlawing ate speech on the internet. British parliament defined hate speech as "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors." The article then goes on to state how the British fear that passing this legislation will only force authors of these sites to move to the U.S. since the U.S. doesn’t have any laws regulating speech online. This was also cited as a problem for other countries who have banned hate speech online and had to resort to blocking U.S. sites because they did not correspond with their own national laws.