Sunday, September 16, 2012

Hate Speech


Hated speech is basically an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race,   ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic and religious groups and other discrete minorities or to women. It can be taken off the web by administration if rules and regulations are applied on the content being published on web. But as the web is so big not only rules but ethics will be more helpful. I think we all need to speak out against expressions of intolerance and hatred whenever they occur.  We need to educate people, especially young people, so that they do not develop intolerance or hatred toward any group. It should be censored because even such things as computer games, cartoons and so on, if they contain offensive remarks against other groups, may lead hot only to conflicts within the country, but to international ones. For example, such computer games as “Intervention into Iran” and Danish cartoons of the Muhammad led to a new wave of terrorism in Europe. So, if we make hate speech a crime, we can bring tolerance to society. If we avoid such conflicts, we will improve social welfare. No it would not violate our freedom of speech right. WE can control it by creating awareness of respect and discouraging hate speech.

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