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unusual facts about Hate speech


Hate speech

Following a campaign that involved the participation of Women, Action and the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project and the activist Soraya Chemaly, who were among 100 advocacy groups, Facebook agreed to update its policy on hate speech.


Albert Makashov

After the general's call for expulsion of all Jews at a public meeting in 1999, there were attempts to prosecute him for hate speech; the newspaper Kommersant run an article about him named "Makashov - zoological antisemite".

Groupe Union Défense

The GUD is also regularly censored by the head of the Assas university because of racist hate speech, in particular following provocations towards the Union des étudiants juifs de France, the French Jewish Students Union.

Vivi Krogh

She was in 1981 convicted for anti-Islamic hate speech by the Norwegian Supreme Court under Norway's so-called "racism paragraph" (§ 135a), and received a suspended 60-day sentence.


see also

Barbara Kay controversy

French Canadian activist Gilles Rhéaume announced his intention to lodge a complaint to the police for hate speech.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

She supports having the French government force Twitter to filter out hate speech that is illegal under French law, such as speech that is homophobic.