2010-6-11 The Pulse : Hate speech

Last week the Equal Opportunities Commission expressed its concern over internet messages that it felt incited racial hatred. Under the Race Discrimination Ordinance it's against the law to discriminate, harass or vilify a person on the ground of the person's race. Doing so can bring a maximum penalty of $100,000 and imprisonment for two years. The commission also approached the concerned blog masters and ISPs informing them of possible liabilities. The website companies were urged to remove the derogatory contents and to provide information on the individual bloggers. Unfortunately material showing contempt or hatred for other groups is far from rare on the internet. But who draws the line? And where?

With us in the studio are the Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Lam Woon-kwong, Francis Fong, founder of the Internet Society, and Joe Yau of the Hong Kong Baptist University.

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