He's an associate professor of sociology at Portland State University who studies hate groups.
" "But we should not be attacking and labeling as hate groups those that we disagree (with).
It's getting harder to paint the Net as an exclusive domain for geeks, social outcasts, libertarians and hate groups.
"I think the hate groups are desperately looking for a silver lining in a very dark cloud for them, " Potok said.
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And Mark Potok tracks hate groups from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Southern Poverty Law Center said it has been following Mr. Page and his connection to hate groups for more than 10 years.
The project is dedicated to monitoring hate groups and extremist activity in the U.S. He joined us from his office in Montgomery, Alabama.
At this time, there are 18 known hate groups in Idaho.
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Despite an investigation by federal and state authorities, no one can yet say if the fires are the work of organized hate groups or lone lunatics.
In the US it blocks sites known to carry material that violates copyright, while in France and Germany it deletes listings for neo-Nazi and race hate groups.
Only a small minority of teens who use the Internet have ever seen Web sites that have information from hate groups, show how to build a bomb or buy a gun.
Currently, there are more than 1, 000 hate groups in the United States, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks them and says it was tracking the Wisconsin gunman for years before the attack.
While experts said it is difficult to determine how many people belong to hate groups, they do agree with an SPLC estimate that claims there are about 900 operating now, a 40 percent increase from 2000.
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You've been with us before, and you've talked both about your work in this area and the fact that you have some personal familiarity with hate groups because you grew up in a town where the Klan was active.
I'm speaking with Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps track of hate groups in the U.S., and Randy Blazak, an associate professor at Portland State University, who also studies hate groups.
Whether the means involve Federal Election Commission disclosure requirements, Securities and Exchange Commission rules on shareholder resolutions, or simply tagging those with opposing views as "hate groups, " the object is clear: to limit debate by forcing one side off the playing field.
The charge is equivalent to a hate crime under Oklahoma law, according to Partners Against Hate, a joint project of the Anti-Defamation League, the Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Center for Preventing Hate nonprofit groups.
They have also been used by Tayside Police for people from minority groups suffering hate crimes.
Business groups obviously hate the idea, saying it would unleash a torrent of expensive and abusive class-action suits.
Both groups are Nuer, but hate each other with a grimness that has come to characterise relations between many pastoralist peoples in Africa.
Our impulse to love and help the members of our own group is matched by an impulse to hate and fear the members of other groups.
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She said Facebook would consult lawyers and interest groups to upgrade its guidelines on removing hate speech.
In attempting to quantify and demonstrate yearly upticks, Potok fears that advocacy groups may damage their credibility and, in doing so, obscure the fact that one hate crime is too many.
None of which really bodes well for finding a solution: a solution which is inevitably going to make one or more groups of people much worse off and is thus the sort of decision that politicians just hate taking.
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