{"id":122132,"date":"2024-01-16T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finland-must-crack-down-on-hate-speech-says-presidential-hopeful\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T07:10:51","slug":"finland-must-crack-down-on-hate-speech-says-presidential-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/finland-must-crack-down-on-hate-speech-says-presidential-hopeful\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland must crack down on hate speech, says presidential hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122132\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nPekka Haavisto says being \u2018united against all external threats\u2019 is key to security amid tension with Russia. Finland must crack down on hate speech against minorities if it is to appear \u201cunited against all external threats\u201d, including from Russia, a leading candidate in the country\u2019s presidential election has said. The Nordic country, which is governed by a coalition including the far-right Finns party, needs to \u201cgrow in tolerance\u201d, said Pekka Haavisto, a former foreign minister who would become Finland\u2019s first green and first out gay president if he is elected.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a pressing social issue, reducing the volume of hate speech aimed at making people of colour and others feel \u201cscared of expressing their opinions\u201d was key to national security, he added, saying external actors might seek to exploit domestic divisions. \u201cIf we want to keep the country united against all external threats, including Russian threats, it is very important that we can handle these types of topics nationally because otherwise these are misused against us and all kinds of provocations can appear. It\u2019s important that we grow in tolerance as Finns,\u201d Haavisto told the Guardian in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The election of the next Finnish president, taking place against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical drama on the country\u2019s border with Russia, is seen as crucial to Finland\u2019s future direction. The head of state and commander-in-chief of the army is responsible for foreign policy, in cooperation with the government, and represents Finland at Nato summits, as well as in meetings with international leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Haavisto, 65, who negotiated Finland\u2019s record-fast accession to Nato last year, is a frontrunner alongside Alexander Stubb, a former prime minister and foreign minister. Jussi Halla-aho, the former leader of the far-right Finns party, is also gaining in the polls in a crowded field of candidates. However, Haavisto, who ran unsuccessfully in 2018 and 2012 and is running as an independent this time, believes his focus on security makes him uniquely placed to take on the challenge of the presidency. On the campaign trail, he said, security was top of the agenda, with people discussing it \u201cmore than ever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/pekka-haavisto-finland-must-be-united-against-external-threats-presidential-candidate\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/pekka-haavisto-finland-must-be-united-against-external-threats-presidential-candidate\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/finland-must-crack-down-on-hate-speech-says-presidential-hopeful\/\">Finland must crack down on hate speech, says presidential hopeful<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[586,12952,12953,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-122132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-finland","tag-hate-scpeech","tag-pekka-haavisto","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}