People are people, online or off. If they are a racist in person, odds are they would be interested in, or create themselves, a website or blog that leans towards their ideals and belief system of racism. Checks and balances occur online if a racist website is the cause of becoming a SNS that is dangerous or destructive towards the real community its based in, however it least in America, freedom of speech allows for racist websites to exist as is. In other countries where the government isn't a democracy, racist websites are allowed to exist at the whim of government officials. If a specific race is targeted that the government official doesn't deem worth protecting, the possible danger to that race could rise with the flourishing of anti-race propaganda and websites that gather people together to inflame the situation. The idea that people can say anything online is really a matter between us and our government, freedom of speech is circumstantial at times due to the nature of online and offline threats to different races in America.
This is the Word.
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