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In Lithuania, an overdue crackdown on online hate speech

 
By Linas Jegelevicius, www.pbs.org

Online hate speech is becoming more and more widespread in Lithuania and until recently, comments like, "The world needs Hitler again to do the cleansing job," which was posted on a website called Delfi, or "Expel dirty Roma people out of Lithuania" would have gone unheeded by criminal justice.

"Although the Lithuanian Criminal Codex includes sufficient law provisions to prosecute instigators of hate and enmity, these provisions have been largely ignored by criminal judges," Vitoldas Maslauskas, former Vilnius County prosecutor, said last month.

Most law enforcement officials, Maslauskas said, ranging from high-level prosecutors to ordinary investigators, turn a blind eye to the practice of web hate speech for one simple reason: Criminal judges are swamped under real-life infringements and don't have time to chase down Internet bashers who, as a result, go untouched online.

Read more at:
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/05/in-lithuania-an-overdue-crackdown-on-online-hate-speech139.html

About journalist Linas Jegelevicius:
http://www.journalistdirectory.com/journalist/XigQi/Linas-Jegelevicius

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