Tackling Online Hate Speech through Content Moderation: The Legal Framework under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

In her new research paper, forthcoming as a book chapter in Bahador, Hammer and Livingston (eds), Countering online hate and its offline consequences in conflict-fragile settings (2022), Dr Talita Dias looks at how online hate speech should be moderated in line with Articles 19 and 20 of the International Covenant on  Civil and Political Rights …

Tackling Football-Related Online Hate Speech: The Role Of International Human Rights Law – Part II, by Talita Dias and Sahil Thapa.

This post was originally published on EJIL: Talk!  on 30 July 2021.  Part II: The UK’s response to football-related online hate speech In the first part of this post, we argued that the various expressions of online racial hatred directed at England’s black football players following the country’s defeat in the recent European Championship final, …

Tackling Football-Related Online Hate Speech: The Role of International Human Rights Law – Part I, by Talita Dias and Talita Dias and Sahil Thapa

This post was originally published on EJIL: Talk! on 30 July 2021. Part I – A pattern of online racist speech Introduction When Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka missed crucial penalties to seal England’s defeat to Italy in the final of the European Championships, a dread began to consume many football fans as …