Germany

Bonn vows to fight Neo - Nazis in Cyberspace

Bonn / Germany (RNC Agency) 16.01.1997

Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel vowed Thursday that Germany would remain vigilant in its fight against neo-Nazis and was determined to stamp out their racist propaganda -- even in cyberspace. ''Vigilance isour top priority. In an alliance of decency with the police and justice authorities, our citizens stand firm against the racist violence ofthe neo-Nazis,'' Kinkel told a German-Jewish forum organized by the Bertelsmann foundation. He told German and Jewish guests at the government'sPetersberg guest house outside Bonn the German government was trying to push a new law through parliament aimed at clamping down on neo-Nazison the Internet. ''We will not allow the Internet to be used as an electronic meeting place for the extreme right wing,'' Kinkel said.Chancellor Helmut Kohl's cabinet approved the bill last November toprotect Internet users' privacy and keep out Nazi propaganda and pornography-- a project the United States and other governments have largely given up as impossible without compromising civil liberties. The Bertelsmann foundation is a non-profit organization set up by the German mediagroup.

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