The Irish government is dropping parts of its controversial hate speech laws, which deal with incitement to hatred or ...

The legal concept of protecting minority groups from hate speech is not new in Scotland, McKerrell said, but the law — passed in 2021 and enacted on April 1 — extends that principle to ...

The Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) law was passed at the end of June 2017 ... "shamefully far" from doing a good job of policing hate speech and other offensive content.

Because the law was philosophical in nature ... governments to pass ordinances to clamp down on hate speech in their jurisdictions. Tokyo passed an ordinance in 2018 that defined what constituted ...

As if the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill tabled on September 12 isn’t draconian enough, another new federal bill has ...

(WSMV) - During Tuesday’s Metropolitan Council meeting, councilmembers discussed multiple bills that were introduced on first reading that would place more laws on public displays of hate speech ...

Forty-seven states and the federal government have passed hate crime laws ... violate defendants' First Amendment free speech rights. Hate crimes laws reflect how we as a society view the ...

The Diet passed an anti-hate speech law in 2016, shortly after Osaka enacted the ordinance. Since it has no provisions for specific restrictions or punishment for violations, however, local ...

which found that Estonia's domestic criminal law did not adequately address hate speech issues and was not in line with the EU's framework on this topic. The hate speech bill passed its first reading ...

But the heart and most of the body of Buchanan’s speech was about cultural issues ... That hasn’t happened, although laws have been passed, even in the Clinton-Gore administration, allowing ...

The hate crime law in Scotland includes more protected characteristics. Supporters of the new law point out that it contains safeguards designed to protect freedom of speech. For example ...