…unanimously, without a vote. Since 2001, resolutions on defamation have become increasingly comprehensive and hostile to freedom of expression, and resistance to their more aggressive character means that they now are being put to a vote, first at the Commission on Human Rights and later the Human Rights Council (hrc), and since 2005 also at the General Assembly. After peaking in 2003, resolutions on defamation of religion have steadily lost vote…
…coded into several categories, including general expressions of opinion, incomprehensible comments, spam, derogatory speech, and legal hate speech. While there was some overlap among the comment categories, it is important to note that our legal experts did not find, for instance, that all hate speech comments would be considered illegal in every country. Additionally, the report analyzes the specific content rules, or lack thereof, for all the pa…
…coded into several categories, including general expressions of opinion, incomprehensible comments, spam, derogatory speech, and legal hate speech. While there was some overlap among the comment categories, it is important to note that our legal experts did not find, for instance, that all hate speech comments would be considered illegal in every country. Additionally, the report analyzes the specific content rules, or lack thereof, for all the pa…
…acob Mchangama, director, Justitia: jacob@justitia-int.org, tel. 24 66 42 20 Eske Vinther-Jensen, director, Common Consultancy, eske@commonconsultancy.com, tel. 21 43 85 30…
…n the problem. The result of imprecise legislation may be that a number of completely legal comments will be deleted as a consequence of the legislation, and it may also be that one does not come close to solving the problem one hopes to solve. The report takes its starting point in 2,400 selected representative comments that, in the analysis ”Angreb i den offentlige debat på Facebook” (”Attacks in the public debate on Facebook”) have been charact…
…e content is viewed and moderated, means that we are expecting a myriad of complex cases involving speech to be processed within just a few hours by private companies, with scant regard for due process and free speech of the affected users. How can this be managed whilst simultaneously upholding the fundamental value of freedom of expression? Moreover, how can platforms conduct proper analysis of the cases when under the risk of huge fines?” Mchan…
…e content is viewed and moderated, means that we are expecting a myriad of complex cases involving speech to be processed within just a few hours by private companies, with scant regard for due process and free speech of the affected users. How can this be managed whilst simultaneously upholding the fundamental value of freedom of expression? Moreover, how can platforms conduct proper analysis of the cases when under the risk of huge fines?” Mchan…
…rk accountability regimes, the Danish government’s independent Free Speech Commission, and a member of the steering committee of the World Expression Forum. Jacob has commented extensively on free speech and human rights in the media and academic journals including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Human Rights Quarterly and The Journal of Free Speech Law. He is the author of several book…
…ontain in an awkward embrace, escaped their grasp and ended up eroding the communist stranglehold on power. But the repressive legacy of Communism had a long half-life even after the ideology itself had been dumped on the ash heap of history at the end of the Cold War. The countries in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – the OIC – sought to exploit the very loopholes that the communist states had introduced for their own purposes. Instead of…
…ontain in an awkward embrace, escaped their grasp and ended up eroding the communist stranglehold on power. But the repressive legacy of Communism had a long half-life even after the ideology itself had been dumped on the ash heap of history at the end of the Cold War. The countries in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – the OIC – sought to exploit the very loopholes that the communist states had introduced for their own purposes. Instead of…
