This includes the passage of the National Cohesion and Integration Act (NCIC) that criminalises hate speech and creates a commission that can investigate problematic speech. Still, many ...

We must scrap laws that choke debate. Hate doesn’t win when we speak freely. It wins when we can’t speak at all.

Almost everyone agrees that hate speech is poison for the solidarity of a society. Nevertheless, the question of what constitutes hate speech and where the limits of freedom of expression lie is ...

Advertisers have abandoned conservative media for years. Now, smart business says it’s time to return. A 2024 study by the ...

But the Supreme Court said the ordinance had taken into consideration the need to guarantee freedom of expression by asking a panel of experts its opinion on what constitutes hate speech before ...

“In effect, the Content Category Report provisions compel every covered social media company to reveal its policy opinion about contentious issues, such as what constitutes hate speech or ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Meta made a big change to the Facebook and Instagram hate speech policies to allow ...

“It is determined that the display of the old national flag of South Africa ... constitutes hate speech in terms of 10.1 of the equality act... (and also) unfair discrimination on the basis of race ...