Should hate speech be banned? This article contends that the debate on this question must
be disaggregated into discrete analytical stages, lest its participants continue to talk past one …

In this paper I develop a systemic discrimination approach to defining a narrowly construed
category of 'hate speech', as speech that harms to a sufficient degree to warrant government …

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In recent debates on offensive language in participatory online spaces, the term 'hate
speech'has become especially prominent. Originating from a legal context, the term usually …

The US government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by
geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the …

Hate speech is one of the most important conceptual categories in anti‐oppression politics
today; a great deal of energy and political will is devoted to identifying, characterizing …

Hate speech has been identified as a pressing problem in society and several automated
approaches have been designed to detect and prevent it. This paper reports and reflects …

In this paper we focus on the difficulty in judging what is called covert hate speech. We
emphasize the need for a multidimensional framework when analysing covert hate speech …

Hate speech should be tackled and prosecuted based on how it is operationalized.
However, the existing theoretical definitions of hate speech are not sufficiently fleshed out or …

Today, aggressive verbal behavior is generally perceived as a threat to integrity and
democratic quality of public discussions, including those online. However, we argue that, in …