Text messages as hate speech in Kenya

Just this morning on "NPR":http://www.npr.org I heard a story about how the different factions in the "recent":http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25209&Cr=kenya&Cr1 "electoral violence":http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KKAA-7AG88N/ in Kenya were sending "hate speech as text messages":http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19188853. Some of the content is simply horrific. This is a sobering reminder that the tools we (I) create can potentially be used for similarly horrible ends...

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