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What does “hate speech” actually mean?

No government has yet been able to define the term successfully. Could you do any better?

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Oct 04, 2024
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To all those who support “hate speech” laws, I ask one simple question: how would you define the term in law?

In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that there “is no universally accepted definition” of the expression “hate speech”.

A manual published by UNESCO in 2015 accepted that “the possibility of reaching a universally shared definit…

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