Deck 7: Illegal, Harmful and Offensive Content Online: From Hate Speech to the Dangers of Pornography

Question 1

Hate speech can be difficult to define. The United States, for example, qualifies hate speech as _______________.?

A) speech that surmounts to an individual or group merely 'trolling' the general populous
B) speech which is derogatory in nature but does not promote violence nor creates a hostile environment
C) speech that incites or produces 'imminent lawless action,' such as direct threats of violence
D) speech within online message boards that is seen as offensive

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In the UK, all of the following legal provisions work to prohibit hate speech except for_______________.?

A) the Anti-Discrimination Act
B) the Race Relations Act
C) the Public Order Act
D) the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who are the 'Alt-Right' in the US?

A) A collection of socialists and communists who advocate for the destruction of capitalism and the implementation of anarchy
B) A strain of extreme political conservatism characterised by implicitly or explicitly racist and white supremacist ideology
C) An extremist political group who are vehemently against those who identify as fascist or racist
D) A political philosophy that advocates for political freedom, autonomy, and a free-market for society

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What was the website founded in 1996 by a former Ku Klux Klan leader, Don Black, which espoused white nationalist and white supremacist ideologies?

A) Breitbart
B) Daily Stormer
C) Stormfront
D) Infowars

Question 5

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles had documented the existence of 600 'hate sites' on the Internet. That number had risen to _______________ by 2010.?

A) 2,010
B) 7,560
C) 11,500
D) 17,980

Question 6

In their appeal to the younger generation, the 'Alt-Right' have begun to use memes, such as _______________, created by Matt Furie, in attempts to lure individuals into their movement.?

A) Grumpy Cat
B) Doge
C) Good Guy Greg
D) Pepe the Frog

Question 7

This individual was a student at the University of California, Irvine where he emailed 59 mainly Asian students asserting that he would kill them all.?

A) Adam Lanza
B) Richard Machado
C) James Holmes
D) Omar Mateen

Question 8

Before this individual killed six people in a mass murder in Isla Vista in 2014, he posted a YouTube video filled with self-righteous anger stemming from a misogynistic view that women had 'forced' him to be celibate by refusing to have sex with him.?

A) Stephen Paddock
B) Syed Farook
C) Eric Harris
D) Elliot Rodger

Question 9

This U.S. court case provided a litmus test for obscene material: if the 'average' person finds that the work appeals to lustful interests in sex, or depicts sexual conduct as defined by state law, and lacks artistic value, then the state may consider the material 'obscene'.?

A) Miller v. California
B) Ohio v. Clark
C) United States v. Solon
D) United States v. Williams

Question 10

This is one of the earliest depictions of the human form which dates back between 24,000 and 22,000 BC. It is a statue of a women with large breasts and other exaggerated feminine features.?

A) 'The Veiled Virgin'
B) 'Venus of Willendorf'
C) 'Venus de Milo'
D) 'The Virgin of Montserrat'

Question 11

_______________ is to make deliberately offensive or provocative statements or postings online specifically to upset or anger someone. Or, in other words, it is done for the "lulz."?

A) Burning
B) Trolling
C) Culling
D) Nulling

Question 12

_______________ are responsible for the bulk of hate speech online.?

A) Islamic extremists
B) Black pride groups
C) Leftist radicals
D) White supremacists

Question 13

_______________ is a term used to describe a group of men who believe they have been wrongfully deprived of sex by women and that they are the victims of an unfair distribution of sexual partners in society. Additionally, their language and beliefs take on heavy misogynistic overtones.?

A) Incels
B) The Deprived
C) Cocelibates
D) The Denied

Question 14

_______________ argued that the "answer to bad speech is more speech."?

A) David Attenborough
B) Richard Stallman
C) Cory Doctorow
D) Stewart Brand

Question 15

In the US, the only legal prohibitions against hate speech concern speech that _______________.?

A) contains a serious and imminent threat of violence against identifiable persons or directly incites others commit specific criminal acts against those person
B) creates a general atmosphere which encourages extremists to commit acts of violence against marginalized populations
C) which targets racial populations protected under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
D) trick question: there are no limits on hate speech in the US due to the protections provided by the First Amendment.

Question 16

_______________, also known as "weev" is perhaps one of the most notorious "trolls" to date. He is the founder of the GNAA and Goatse Security.?

A) Chelsea Manning
B) Cory Doctorow
C) Andrew Auernheimer
D) Sabu

Question 17

Which of the following types of content are NOT protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.?

A) Indecent
B) Offensive
C) Obscene
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 18

In the US, laws which have attempted to curtail children's exposure to pornographic material have generally been struck down under this Constitutional Amendment.?

A) First Amendment
B) Fourth Amendment
C) Fourteenth Amendment
D) Sixteenth Amendment