PRISM Final Conference: “Words are Weapons: Strategies, policies and initiatives to fight against online hate speech in the EU”
Pozzallo Pozzallo, ItalyWORDS ARE WEAPONS Strategies, policies and initiatives to fight against online hate speech in the EU 14th May, 2016 (9.00 – 13.30) City Hall of Pozzallo, Italy SYNOPSIS Many surveys, studies and reports show that in the Member States, continued and renewed physical or verbal attacks against minority groups and immigrants are considerably increasing, as marked by the latest reports of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU (FRA) on physical assaults, harassments or threats against immigrants or Roma people. Not only hate crime is increasing, but recent research show that hatemotivated violence is more and more often accompanied or…