Obi Łan Łąki Kenobi on Nostr: Friendly reminder “Broad or vague definitions of hate speech and related crimes can ...
Friendly reminder
“Broad or vague definitions of hate speech and related crimes can jeopardize freedom of speech, since governments often use vague laws to punish their political opponents, or the very minorities against whom hate speech abounds, like the Roma in Hungary (Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, 2013). Indeed, governments in countries as varied as India, Rwanda, and Kazakhstan have used laws against hate speech or hateful speech to punish and silence journalists, dissenters, and minorities (DNA India 2015; Amnesty International, 2010, p. 28; Mchangama, 2019). This may even increase the risk of violence, by preventing people from expressing and resolving their grievances peacefully.
We focus instead on dangerous speech, since it is a narrower, more specific category, defined not by a subjective emotion such as hatred, but by its capacity to inspire a harm that is all too easy to identify – intergroup violence – and that many people can agree on wanting to prevent.”
https://dangerousspeech.org/guide/
“Broad or vague definitions of hate speech and related crimes can jeopardize freedom of speech, since governments often use vague laws to punish their political opponents, or the very minorities against whom hate speech abounds, like the Roma in Hungary (Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, 2013). Indeed, governments in countries as varied as India, Rwanda, and Kazakhstan have used laws against hate speech or hateful speech to punish and silence journalists, dissenters, and minorities (DNA India 2015; Amnesty International, 2010, p. 28; Mchangama, 2019). This may even increase the risk of violence, by preventing people from expressing and resolving their grievances peacefully.
We focus instead on dangerous speech, since it is a narrower, more specific category, defined not by a subjective emotion such as hatred, but by its capacity to inspire a harm that is all too easy to identify – intergroup violence – and that many people can agree on wanting to prevent.”
https://dangerousspeech.org/guide/