ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that there is a culture of racism in the Internet that cannot be narrowed down to the machinations of individuals, rather cyber race hate must be understood as a culture within which institutional service providers (ISPs) operate and that requires a different way of dealing with the problem of cyber race hate. It also argues that Internet and web service providers have a duty of care to protect black people (and other minority ethnic groups) from being subject to racism online. ISPs that do little to curb the use of their facilities to promulgate black hate speech can be said to be institutionally racist in that they fail to provide a service to black people by inadvertently allowing racism to be facilitated on line. The chapter focuses on Africans and Afro-Caribbean's around the world who are cyber victims and may very well feel the effects of this racism in real space.
