The content of freedom of expression, hate speech and the democratic answer

Danielle Anne Pamplona

doi:10.18256/2238-0604.2018.v14i1.1788

The content of freedom of expression, hate speech and the democratic answer

Danielle Anne Pamplona

Abstract

This text advocates that the analysis of the international instruments governing the right to freedom of expression and its restrictions distract the best defenses of the ban from the restriction imposed on the hate speech. To this end, it establishes the genesis of the protection of freedom of expression and assesses how the universal and the inter-American and European regional instruments contemplate it, clarifying its content and the restrictions that are imposed on its exercise. The research was carried out on doctrine and on the mentioned international instruments. The analysis led to the conclusion that the Inter-American system is the most protective of freedom of expression, while at the same time being more modest in relation to the restrictions it imposes on the exercise of freedom of expression. Even so, there is a mechanism in the inter-American system that allows adequate protection against abuses that may be practiced in the name of freedom of expression and that justifies the adoption of restrictions such as hate speech.

Keywords

International Law of Human Rights; Freedom of expression; Right content; Hate speech; International documents

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