Sentences with phrase «hate speech laws»

I think most people see these as strong arguments to justify hate speech laws — whether they are ultimately persuasive or not being a different issue.

This is in addition to its call for the establishment of an «Independent National Commission for Hate Speeches», which shall enforce hate speech laws across the country.

The law also seeks the establishment of an «Independent National Commission for Hate Speech», to enforce hate speech laws across the country, including jail terms and fines.

There have been rumblings, for example, that Germany's hate speech law goes too far in clamping down on free speech.

Germany at the start of the year began enforcing a new hate speech law that gives social networks just 24 hours to act on hate speech, fake news, and illegal material.

Narrowly focusing on hate speech law, as limits on freedom of speech (in countries that purport to protect freedom of speech), there are numerous types of prohibited speech, the the prohibitions are instantiated in many ways.

While the broader issue of online hate speech has continued to be a hot button political issue, especially in Europe — with Germany passing a social media hate speech law in October.

The country has specific hate speech laws which criminalize certain types of speech, such as incitement to racial and religious violence, and the NetzDG law cites sections of the existing German Criminal Code — applying itself specifically to social media platforms.

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(well, we know it can be)-- should there be hate speech laws?

Does the US have hate speech laws?

while there hasn't been challenges on that but hate speech laws are likely unconstitutional, as they are imposed by the government and should constitute direct infringement of the citizen's first amendment rights.

Hate speech laws have always come in for criticism, balancing as they do on the slack wire between freedom of speech and violence to others.

This vindication of the right to free speech, even for unpopular and highly unpopular and questionable ideas, was a welcome divergence from the majority's opinion in R. v. Keegstra, when Canada's hate speech laws were deemed to be a «reasonable limit» on Section 2 (b) of the Charter.

The fuller statement in the article at Wikipedia is that: «As of 2012, anti-blasphemy laws existed in 32 countries, while 87 nations had hate speech laws that covered defamation of religion and public expression of hate against a religious group.