Hate speech laws by country

Hate speech is public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.^[1] Hate speech is "usually thought to include communications of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, colour, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation".^[2]

^ "Hate speech". Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus. Cambridge University Press.
^ Nockleby, John T. (2000). "Hate Speech". In Levy, Leonard W. & Karst, Kenneth L. (eds.). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference US. pp. 1277–1279. Cited in Brown-Sica, Margaret & Beall, Jeffrey (2008). "Library 2.0 and the Problem of Hate Speech". Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship. 9 (2).

[1] "Hate speech". Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus. Cambridge University Press.

[2] Nockleby, John T. (2000). "Hate Speech". In Levy, Leonard W. & Karst, Kenneth L. (eds.). Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference US. pp. 1277–1279. Cited in Brown-Sica, Margaret & Beall, Jeffrey (2008). "Library 2.0 and the Problem of Hate Speech". Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship. 9 (2).

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