hate speech, hate crimes

Harvard University Press

"The biggest difference between the hate crimes of the past and Sunday’s mass shooting is that they were group actions rather than the work of a single individual. That is an important difference, to be sure, but it shouldn’t obscure how much yesterday’s events did have in common with past massacres of hated groups."

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MIT Technology Review


This is the latest controversial move in what has been a thorny issue for companies trying to strike a balance between freedom of expression online and curtailing abusive or violent content.



Should we let Internet companies define how we express ourselves?
Facebook and Twitter, among others, have agreed to enact a more stringent…
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hate speech

originally US

NOUN

Speech expressing hatred or intolerance of other social groups, especially on the basis of race or sexuality; hostile verbal abuse (though the term is sometimes understood to encompass written and non-verbal forms of expression).

Origin

1980s; earliest use found in Newsweek.