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"In January 2000, Ryan Wilson and the group he runs, ALPHA HQ, were charged by federal authorities with civil rights violations for running a Web site that threatened a housing activist, and suggested acts of domestic terrorism against her organization. The target was Bonnie Jouhari, who chaired the Hate Crimes Task Force for a county in Pennsylvania. The ALPHA HQ Web site carried an animated picture of Jouhari's office being blown up by explosives and a picture of Jouhari, who is white, labeling her a 'race traitor.' It said: 'Traitors like this should beware, for in our day, they will be hung from the neck from the nearest tree or lamp post.' This is certainly not the first such incident involving websites and threatening messages. In exploring this problem, be sure to identify the liberty-order conflict and indicate how you think the conflict will ultimately be resolved."

-Excerpt from GVPT333 webpage

Despite the highly offensive nature of hate group web-sites, the sites should not be censored because the right to free speech must be preserved. In this project we define what is considered to be hateful content; Why this hateful content should be protected; What else can be done to monitor this material on the internet; When are the people creating and serving these web-sites to be held legally responsible for the content on them.