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Hate Speech
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Media Law Prof Blog
Gould on Whether the “Hate” In Hate Speech Is the “Hate” In Hate Crime @rrgould
Rebecca Gould, Islamic World & Comparative Literature, College of Arts & Law, University of Birmingham; Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies is publishing Is the ‘Hate’…
Media Law Prof Blog
Gordon on Atrocity Speech Law @ProfGSGordon
Gregory S. Gordon, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, has published Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition -- Introduction in Gregory S. Gordon, Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation,…
Technology Law Dispatch
Munich Court of Appeal prohibits Facebook from deleting a post that does not fall under the German Hate Speech Act
By Dr. Alexander Hardinghaus, Sven Schonhofen, Dr. Philipp Süss
On 24 August 2018, the Munich Court of Appeal (“Court”) issued a preliminary injunction against Facebook that prohibits Facebook from deleting a certain user’s post (docket no. 18 W 1294/18). Facts…
The Right Coast
Facebook Censors PragerU Videos And Shadow Bans Posts | The Daily Caller
Facebook is censoring PragerU videos for violating its speech codes that prohibit so-called hate speech and shadow banning its posts, PragerU wrote on Twitter Friday. We re being heavily censored…
The Right Coast
Twitter apologizes to Candace Owens after briefly locking her account
On Saturday, Owens called attention to racially charged tweets Jeong sent in years past for which she has come under fire in recent days. Owens, who is black, tweeted out…
The Right Coast
Facebook Algorithm Flags, Removes Declaration of Independence Text as Hate Speech – Hit & Run : Reason.com
America's founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence. The excerpt, posted by…
Media Law Prof Blog
Cohen-Almagor on Taking North American White Supremacist Groups Seriously @almagor35
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull, has published Taking North American White Supremacist Groups Seriously: The Scope and the Challenge of Hate Speech on the Internet at 7 International Journal of…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Beyond Jim Crow: The Corruption of Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech is the disguise behind which racism, misogyny and other forms of hate flourish. Without regard for professional and educational standards, businesses and universities refuse to intervene when…
The Right Coast
Zuckerberg s New Hate Speech Plan: Out With the Court and In With the Code – Lawfare
Zuckerberg did shed some light on Facebook s current thinking about how it will combat hate speech on its platform. The plan epitomizes technological optimism: in five to ten years,…
The Right Coast
Zuckerberg s New Hate Speech Plan: Out With the Court and In With the Code – Lawfare
Zuckerberg did shed some light on Facebook s current thinking about how it will combat hate speech on its platform. The plan epitomizes technological optimism: in five to ten years,…