Legal Policies PARLIAMENTARY TOOLKIT ON HATE SPEECH (Parliamentary Assembly & Council of Europe) 15 March 2023 “ECRI calls for speedy reactions by public figures to hate speech; promotion of self-regulation of media; raising awareness of the…
Legal Countering online hate speech through legislative measures: The Ethiopian approach from a comparative perspective (The Communication Review) 15 March 2023 “Using comparative legal research methodology, this research article seeks to offer an overview of the legislative responses to online hate…
Assorted Legal Policies Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. February 2023 (II/II) | Policyinstitute.net 28 February 2023 The 75 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech by Thorsten Koch, MA,…
Legal Policies How Online Speech Is Moderated in the US (Bloomberg via The Washington Post) 28 February 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-online-speech-is-moderated-in-the-us/2023/02/10/58ad6800-a903-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html “Social media platforms have faced enormous scrutiny over which content they silence and which they amplify. Cases before the…
Legal Policies Society Hate Speech: Turning the tide (United Nations) 28 February 2023 https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132617 “Online hate speech might seem like an unstoppable tide, but strategies are being employed by governments, civil society, and…
Legal Policies Why Is Censorship Important? (17 Reasons) (Enlighto) 28 February 2023 “In this article, we will explore why censorship is important and the role it plays in protecting our society. From…
Legal Policies Big Social-Media Players may be Banned in Case of Legal Violations, EU Commissioner 06 February 2023 (Policyinstitute.net) – EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton has said in a striking interview with the German Der Spiegel that…
Algorithms Assorted Legal Society Offline and Online Gender-Based Violence: Extremism Risk Assessment Tools and the Rise of the Incel Rebellion (GNET Research) 22 January 2023 “In recent years, there have been increasing instances of online hate and gender-based violence against women. Reports of involuntary celibate…
Legal Policies Society Mayors explore ways to combat online hate and extremism (Statescoop) 22 January 2023 “Preventing the spread of disinformation and hate speech online, including on social media, is vital to reduce real-life acts of…
Legal Policies Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance (arXiv) 22 January 2023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.03946.pdf “In the summer of 2021, users on the livestreaming platform Twitch were targeted by a wave of ‘hate raids,’…
Legal Policies Society Freedom of speech is not freedom to spread racial hatred on social media: UN experts (United Nations Human Rights) 22 January 2023 https://www.ohchr.org/en/taxonomy/term/765 “Allowing and tolerating the incitement to hatred and expression or advocacy of hatred against people of African descent and…
Legal Policies Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. December 2022 (I/I, Part b) | Policyinstitute.net 29 December 2022 On the list below, you will find the second part of the 140 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics…