In that context, South Africa is right to want to punish, in particular, hate-speech that incites racial violence.
Given a particularly divisive history, laws designed to curb hate-speech can be justified as an effort to ensure that such a history is not repeated.
Radio Netherlands and Amsterdam University are refining a proposal for an early-warning system that would pick up hate-speech broadcasts, including cryptic ones, and at least mitigate their effects.
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Many European Union states (and even some non-EU countries in Europe) have various types of anti-hate speech legal mechanisms, in part to head off terrorism and far-right violence.
The following year, a court ruled that the song amounted to hate speech - a decision that Mr Malema rejected.
We're not quick enough to call out anti-gay hate speech, too ready to tolerate people who are different, to hold them at a comfortable distance, rather than understanding and embracing them.
We wrote an open letter to Facebook, co-signed by more than 100 organizations, asking the company to take concrete steps to better understand gender-based hate speech on its site and to train people to recognize violence against women as hateful.
We wanted to show that hate speech is not just words --- that words can lead to actions.
During his remarks before OSCE participants, al-Marayati said that "hate speech that intends to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence against someone based on religion is harmful, " according to a portion of his speech posted on MPAC's website.
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The training in Machakos County is a hands-on practical exercise for journalists on how to deal with hate speech and inflammatory remarks, and also on how to host talk shows in a conflict-sensitive manner during the upcoming election scheduled for 4 March 2013.
In fact, El-Fatatry says, the site is constantly policed to remove any hate speech or threats of religious violence.
Although independent web-hosting companies in the United States can legally close down hate sites, there is a healthy tradition of free speech on the Internet.
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