Why ‘inciting violence’ should not be the only threshold for defining hate speech in New Zealand
- Written by: Eddie Clark, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
www.shutterstock.comHate speech regulation is hard to get right. As media law specialist Steven Price has pointed out, the challenge for a democratic society lies in targeting the harm hate speech is claimed to do while not capturing other legitimate forms of speech too broadly.
It’s true, the scope, enforcement and effectiveness of hate...
