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Hate speech, speech or expression that denigrates a person or persons on the basis of (alleged) membership in a social group identified by attributes such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, physical or mental disability, and others. Typical hate speech involves epithets.
Examples of a Hate Speech Policy. These examples of hate speech policies serve as inspiration from well-known companies. Let’s dive in with the Facebook policy on hate speech. Note: I include a snippet for the examples, so you’ll need to click on each to read the full hate speech policy.
As history continues to show, hate speech coupled with disinformation can lead to stigmatization, discrimination and large-scale violence.
Hate speech is having a demonstrable effect on society: one of the many similarities between the January attacks on Brazil’s government buildings, and the storming of the US Capitol on January...
The impact of hate speech cuts across numerous existing United Nations areas of focus, from human rights protection and prevention of atrocity crimes to sustaining peace and achieving gender ...
Hate speech calls out real or perceived “identity factors” of an individual or a group, including: “religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, colour, descent, gender,” but also characteristics...
Here, we will focus most explicitly on how hate speech has been taken up within philosophy, with particular emphasis on issues such as: how to define hate speech; what are the plausible harms of hate speech; how an account of hate speech might include both overt expressions of hate (e.g., the vitriolic use of slurs) as well as more covert ...
Here are some examples of hate speech that led to the accused being found guilty: Caution: The following examples may be distressing to some readers. Someone spray-painted comments—on public-transit property and parked cars—that called for violence against Syrians and Muslims.
The Holocaust, the genocide against the Tutsi, the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar are among the many examples where hate speech and propaganda systematically dehumanized people and prepared the ground for the most horrific of crimes.
Online hate speech might seem like an unstoppable tide, but strategies are being employed by governments, civil society, and individuals, to fight back. A new UN Podcasts series, UNiting...