Sharing hate speech online to become criminal offence but there will be protections for freedom of speech
Justice Minister Helen McEntee aims to bring forward new legislation by Easter 2021.
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Justice Minister Helen McEntee aims to bring forward new legislation by Easter 2021.
Demonstrators from rival sides were forced apart by gardaí as the rally took place outside Leinster House.
Groups including Amnesty International Ireland have called for politicians to avoid hate speech during their campaigns.
The report was written as an alternative to previous hate crime reports submitted to the United Nations.
The Department of Justice is currently finalising research on legislative approaches to tackling hate crime in other countries.
A formal complaint was made to gardaí yesterday.
O’Doherty continued to post videos on a second YouTube account despite receiving a seven-day ban.
The social media giant now bans posts that liken religious groups to rats, viruses or maggots.
The ECRI said the majority of local authorities have “consistently failed” to provide adequate accommodation for Travellers.
Hit them where it hurts. When so-called ‘provocateur’ Milo Yiannopoulos overstepped the line, he lost his book deal and now he is reported to be heavily in debt, writes Kate O’Brien.
Facebook previously linked expressions of white nationalism with broader concepts of nationalism and separatism.
A DCU report said that there were two types of people who posted hate speech: those “versed” in it and those who just reproduce it.
Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube have all banned Alex Jones, who runs the website Infowars.
This week I wished I lived in Ballaghadareen and not in Kilkenny, writes Malcolm Noonan.
Colleagues say Professor Emeritus Lawrence Rosen has often used the slur during lectures on free speech.
Hopkins had been discussing hate speech on The Last Word.
A Syrian refugee recently lost a court case after he was targetted by Facebook trolls over a photo with Angela Merkel.
Lawrence Burns has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Geert Wilders is facing charges over comments made in 2014 about Moroccan residents in the Netherlands.
The body says hate speech has “soared” since 2013.
Legal restrictions were placed on the verdict being made public until now.
The new rules will see companies like Facebook review and remove hate speech within 24 hours of being notified.
The man said Irish women who date African men are “absolute sluts”.
“We are still witnesses, and in some cases, victims of injustices,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“It takes courage to choose hope over fear,” he said in a keynote speech.
The app, which was designed to show news and videos from the group, was only up shortly before it was taken down.
A petition needs to reach 100,000 signatures for the action to take place.
The Irish Daily Mail columnist has been told by the DPP that she will face no action over the opinion piece.
The trouble with trying to put limits on free speech and the freedom of conscience is that you inevitably wind up tying yourself in knots.
But the social network isn’t the “wild west” and the company does care about hate speech, OK?
Brenda Power said that Travellers should “teach their children to use a golf club or a hurley for something other than breaking a cousin’s leg”.
Ireland has never seemed intolerant to me but recent instances of racism and intolerance in the news has me questioning whether I am right, writes Aileen Donegan.
A family home in Dublin was daubed with graffiti telling the occupants to leave, while the old Anglo Irish Bank headquarters were painted with anti-Semitic graffiti.
Geert Wilders had compared the Koran to Mein Kampf and faced charges of hate speech and discrimination.