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Hate Speech on Social Media - Croatian Experience

Freedom of speech is the fundamental right of every man. This right implies seeking, receiving and disseminating information and ideas of every kind. But what if someone decides to abuse his or her rights and cross the border of freedom of expression? The result is hate speech that transcends any boundary of freedom of expression. A speech for which there is no consistent definition. A hate speech often condemns racial, religious, national, gender, ethnic and any other diversity. Hate speech is most widespread on social networks, which constitute the foundations of modern communication. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have become a landfill site of hate speech. These may be accessed in a simple and fast way and besides offering a platform for communication, they can be used for downloading and sharing content and information of all types. Moreover, in a matter of few minutes, we can become almost anyone on social networks, or no one under the mask of anonymity. This encourages individuals to write things they would otherwise never dare to speak out loud in real circumstances or in front of real people. The media, although suppressing hatred more and more in the contents that they publish, still do not contribute sufficiently to the suppression of hatred of their users on social networks. The aim of this paper is to examine the hate speech regulation in Croatia.

freedom of speech ; hate speech ; mass communication ; mass media ; social networks

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