FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THE PROBLEM OF REGULATING HATE SPEECH IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Authors

  • Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet Professor Titular da Escola de Direito e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da PUCRS.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21783/rei.v5i3.428

Keywords:

Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech, Social Media, Regulation

Abstract

Hate speech, although not being, as such, a recent phonemena, became a worldwide challenge, whit increasing and more devastating impact, attracting the urgent need of adequate regulation in terms of prevention and interdition, something to be at national and transnational level. One of the major challenges is to find the proper balancing between the fundamental freedom of expression and the protection of human dignity and personality rights against any kind of manifestation that is qualified as hate speech. In this sense, the aim of this paper is to discuss the problem in light of the European Court of Human Rights case law (the Belkacem vs. Belgium decision), the recently enacted German Act to Improve Enforcement of the Law in Social Networks (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz – German Network Enforcement Act) and the Brazilian constitutional order.

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Author Biography

Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet, Professor Titular da Escola de Direito e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da PUCRS.

Desembargador aposentado do TJRS e Advogado.

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2019-12-18

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Sarlet, I. W. (2019). FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND THE PROBLEM OF REGULATING HATE SPEECH IN SOCIAL NETWORKS. JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES, 5(3), 1207–1233. https://doi.org/10.21783/rei.v5i3.428

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