Emily Chung UNH Computer Science CS408

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Questions

1. How would you define “hate speech?”
2. Would you advocate placing limits on free expression (as most European countries do) in order to deal with the problems posed by hate speech? If so, how would you define those limits?
3. Should we attempt to reach an international consensus on how to define hate speech and on the standards (if any) to be applied in dealing with it?
4. Is censorship or filtering of hate group websites ever appropriate? If so, under what circumstances?
5. Should creators of hate-oriented Web sites be held responsible for actions of people (such as the ‘lone wolves,’ people who commit crimes of hatred without specific instructions) who view those sites and then commit hate crimes?
6. Would you advocate special restrictions on making hate-related material available to children via the Internet? (If so, what would you propose?)
7. Should there be any distinction between what is legal online and what is legal offline?
8. Should the standards that apply to hate-related material be different from the standards that apply to other objectionable material such as pornography?

My Opinion

1. If a person is hurt by speech which is based on their skincolor,gender or ethnicity group and that hurt one another. This is hate speech.
2. I wouldnt place any limits. Because I find it very hard to just define those limits. There will be a lot of argument occured. I would rahter just educate people more.
3. I would not attempt to reach an international consensus on how to define hate speech,because people are from different background, country, they would thenhave different culture. Some people may thing something is wrong, and some people may thing it's right.This is consequently hard to just define something. If we do, there will be a lot of different ponion coming out.
4. I think censorship or filtering of hate group websites can be appropriated in school environment and some public places.Because we cannot control how older people talk but we have the resonsibilities to educate the younger generation.
5. No, I don't think they should bear the respnsibilities since they are free to so things. And even if we were to ask them to bear respnsibilities, we wounlt know what to ask them to do. I think this is just useless.
6. I would restirct them from seeing that material. Because i think children are not old enough to able to know what's wrong and what's right. They may follow it because they dont know that is wrong.
7. I think there should not be any distinction between what is legal online and what is legal offline because they are ilegal either way.
8. Yes, I think we should have different standards between hate-related materials and objectionable materials, such as pornogarphy because hate speech is something that hurt people but objectionable materials, such as pornogarphy is somehting that wouldnt hurt people.

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