TY - BOOK ID - 127208657 TI - Hate speech and human rights in Eastern Europe : legislating for divergent values PY - 2020 SN - 0367437848 9780367437848 0367437848 9780367437848 PB - Abingdon: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Hate speech KW - Hate speech KW - Hate speech UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127208657 AB - "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" ER -