Hate speech and human rights in Eastern Europe : legislating for divergent values / Viera Pejchal.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

©2020

xviii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Routledge research in human rights law.

"The spread of hatred and hate speech has intensified in many corners of the world over the last decade and its regulation presents a conundrum for many democracies. This book presents a three-prong theory describing three different but complementary models of hate speech regulation which allows stakeholders to better address this phenomenon. It examines international and national legal frameworks and related case law as well as pertinent scholarly literature review to highlight this development. After a period of an absence of free speech during communism, post-communist democracies have sought to build a framework for the exercise of free speech while protecting public goods such as liberty, equality and human dignity. The three-prong theory is applied to identify public goods and values underlining the regulation of hate speech in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries that share a political, sociological, and legal history, as an example of the differing approaches to hate speech regulation in post-communist societies due to divergent social values, despite identical legal frameworks"-- Provided by publisher.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral-Université de Genève, 2019) issued under title: Hate speech regulation in post-communist countries : the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index.

KJC8465 .P45 2020

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