#13 FreeSpeak (Part 2): Free Speech vs Hate Speech, Racism and Insult & the Role of Social Media
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Arguably incidents of racism and tribalism shouldn’t still be happening in Namibia 30 years after independence and the fall of apartheid. But it’s almost like we’ve simply brushed the subject under the carpet through the policy of national reconciliation pretending it will all just go away. Clearly, we’ve still got a long way to go in fully addressing deep wounds and divisions in our ethnically diverse country. Gwen Lister and lawyer and human rights expert, Toni Hancox, Director of the Legal Assistance Centre, discuss the legal aspects and implications of hate speech including racism and tribalism, and what mainstream and social media can do about it.
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Published 12/16/22
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Published 07/20/22