{"id":115008,"date":"2023-06-19T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/we-must-work-together-to-reign-in-toxic-and-destructive-hate-speech\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:20:39","slug":"we-must-work-together-to-reign-in-toxic-and-destructive-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/we-must-work-together-to-reign-in-toxic-and-destructive-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"We must work together to reign in \u2018toxic and destructive\u2019 hate speech"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWith hate spreading lightning fast on social media and \u201cmega spreaders\u201d using divisive rhetoric to inspire thousands, the United Nations is calling for concerted global efforts to combat hate speech. Hate speech reinforces discrimination and stigma and is most often aimed at women, refugees and migrants, and minorities. If left unchecked, it can even harm peace and development, as it lays the ground for conflicts and tensions, wide scale human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>To turn back the rising tide of hate, the United Nations is marking the International Day for Countering Hate Speech by calling on everyone to work together to build a more respectful and civil world, and for effective action to end this toxic and destructive phenomenon. UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres also warns that misguided and ambiguous responses to hate speech \u2013 including blanket bans and internet shutdowns \u2013 may also violate human rights by restricting freedom of speech and expression.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the top UN human rights official, Volker T\u00fcrk, says that the spread of hate speech-related laws being misused against journalists and human rights defenders is almost as viral as the spread of hate speech itself. In his message on the Day, he stresses that broad laws \u2013 that license States to censor speech they find uncomfortable and to threaten or detain those who question Government policy or criticize officials \u2013 violate rights and endanger essential public debate. \u201cRather than criminalizing protected speech, we need States and companies to take urgent steps to address incitement to hatred and violence,\u201d Mr. T\u00fcrk says.<\/p>\n<p>But we are far from powerless in the face of hate speech, says Mr. Guterres, stressing that \u201cwe can and must raise awareness about its dangers, and work to prevent and end it in all its forms.\u201d He cites the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech as the Organization\u2019s comprehensive framework for tackling the causes and impacts of hate speech, and notes that the world body\u2019s offices and teams around the world are confronting hate speech by implementing local action plans, based on this strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations is consulting governments, technology companies and others on a voluntary Code of Conduct for information integrity on digital platforms, aimed at reducing the spread of mis- and disinformation and hate speech, while protecting freedom of expression,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. T\u00fcrk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calls for a range of actions \u2013 from education initiatives and investing in digital literacy programmes to listening to those most effective by hate speech and holding companies to their human rights obligations. \u201cMore also needs to be done to address mega-spreaders \u2013 those officials and influencers whose voices have profound impact and whose examples inspire thousands of others,\u201d Mr. T\u00fcrk said. \u201cWe must build networks and amplify voices that can cut through the hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/06\/1137827\">The UN<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/we-must-work-together-to-reign-in-toxic-and-destructive-hate-speech\/\">We must work together to reign in \u2018toxic and destructive\u2019 hate speech<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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":[3710,3711,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-115008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hate","tag-speech","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}