Legal Instruments for Combating Racism on the Internet
Legal Instruments for Combating Racism on the Internet Various national and international legal instruments punish hate speech. Efforts to harmonise national legislation - including the Additional…
Specifikacia Legal Instruments for Combating Racism on the Internet
Legal Instruments for Combating Racism on the Internet
Various national and international legal instruments punish hate speech. Efforts to harmonise national legislation - including the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime - have come up ag However, the specific nature of the Internet calls for the adoption of new strategies to combat hate speech promoting racism and violence, which is widely and swiftly disseminated on the web.As the Internet ignores territories and has no boundaries, states cannot control it effectively by unilateral national regulation; what is needed is increased international co-operation.