DISINFO: The Czech Ministry of Interior is actively repressing people and websites
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DISINFO: The Czech Ministry of Interior is actively repressing people and websites

SUMMARY

The Czech Ministry of Interior is actively repressing people and websites with politically incorrect opinions. It is inspired by the NGO People in Need manual on fighting hate speech, which classifies basically any claim (e.g. “Part of the migrants are economic migrants”) to be hate speech that should be punished by the state.

RESPONSE

No evidence given. The Czech MoI is repressing neither people nor opinions bit.ly/2kboybB, . The NGO People in Need has made a study that provides a definition of hate speech, but it highlights that sometimes it can be quite narrow and that context and the interpretation framework must be taken into account when studying hate speech.bit.ly/1MD9VqL,

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