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Norwegian Man Sentenced to Prison for Racist Web Site

A Norwegian man was sentenced to prison for posting racist and anti-Semitic propaganda on a Web site -- a rare conviction for hate speech on the Internet. A Norwegian district court found Tore W. Tevdt guilty on five of six counts of violating Norway's anti-racism law, and indicated that it put special weight on Tevdt's efforts to draw children and young people into anti-Semitic and racist beliefs.

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