Social media incitement to genocide. ECHR countries’ perspective
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Łubiński, Piotr
xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-citation: The Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law : Developments after Lemkin / edited by Marco Odello and Piotr Łubiński. - London : Routledge Taylor&Francis Group, 2020. - S. [262]-281
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social mediagenocide
Date: 2020
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This chapter addresses the issue of incitement to genocide in the realm of social media. It analyses the
regulations on hate speech and tries to frame them within the debate on genocide, with special focus on the notion
of incitement to genocide in social media. The first part of the study examines the legal framework of incitement
by examining the relevant judgments and literature on genocide. The second part focuses on ISIS activities in
social media, especially those orchestrated against the Yazidi community. The conclusions include a discussion of
the relevant legal implications for actions executed on the territory of European Convention on Human Rights
countries. In examining the theoretical basis for speech acts as an incitement to genocide in social media, this
chapter compares an equivalent form of incitement for other types of media outlets, such as radio or television.
The increasing role of social media and lack of clearly identified territorial borders raises the issue of
deepening state control over the new media and refreshes the concept of universal jurisdiction.