{"id":179506,"date":"2022-04-15T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=179506"},"modified":"2022-04-15T20:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T14:30:50","slug":"hate-speech-is-violent-in-itself-and-must-be-called-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hate-speech-is-violent-in-itself-and-must-be-called-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate speech is violent in itself and must be called out\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News:<\/span><\/b> Recently, the chief priest of an ashram in <\/span>Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Sitapur district<\/span><\/b> publicly threatened sexual violence against Muslim women. It implies that the Hate speech has become a frequent phenomenon in public sphere of India.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why hate speech is a big issue?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

It has become one of the biggest challenges to the rule of law and to our democratic conscience. It is anti-constitutional and anti-secular in India.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is at the root of many forms of violence. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hate Speech laws in India<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The <\/span>Sections 153A, 295A and 298<\/span><\/b> under the <\/span>IPC<\/span><\/b> criminalises \u201cthe promotion of enmity between different groups of people on grounds of religion and language, alongside acts that are prejudicial to maintaining communal harmony\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Section 505<\/span><\/b> of the IPC <\/span>criminalises<\/span><\/b> speech\/statements intended\/likely to induce fear or alarm to the public, instigate\/incite public disorder, class or community violence and inter-community hatred.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Section 125 of the Representation of People Act<\/span><\/b> makes promoting feelings of enmity and hatred on grounds of religion and caste, punishable with imprisonment up to <\/span>three years <\/span><\/b>and fine or both.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What have been issues in combating hate speech in India?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

In recent years, hate speech and <\/span>disinformation campaign<\/span><\/b>, has been <\/span>mediatised <\/span><\/b>i.e., acquired a systemic presence in the<\/span> media<\/span><\/b>, and <\/span>social media platforms <\/span><\/b>(like Facebook and YouTube Platform)<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/strong> 2018 was considered as \u201cthe year of online hate\u201d. There have been<\/span> anti-minority sentiments <\/span><\/b>on these platforms.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a lack of political will, <\/span>blatant inefficiency<\/span><\/b> and <\/span>bias of the administrati<\/span><\/b>on. <\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/strong> For example, In 2019, the SC reprimanded the <\/span>Election Commission<\/span><\/b> for not taking action against hate speech during the election. The ECI responded by saying that it had limited powers to take action in this matter. In fact, there has been shocking apathy of the judiciary as it has not taken any stand against it<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The hate speech is increasingly used for <\/span>electoral mobilisation<\/span><\/b> along <\/span>communal lines<\/span><\/b> across India.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ways Forward<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The Indian republic should be committed to working within the framework of constitutional democracy and the rule of law.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hate speech, in itself, must be understood and treated as a <\/span>violent act<\/span><\/b>. Hate speech must be unambiguously condemned and the law must take its course.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Law Commission in its <\/span>267th report<\/span><\/b> recommended introduction of <\/span>new provisions<\/span><\/b> within the penal code that specifically <\/span>punish incitement to violence<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u202fSupreme Court should act decisively in response to allegations of hate speech in the judicial cases.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The EC must assume more responsibility related hate speech during the election period.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The media should play the real role of watchdog.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/span><\/b>The post is based on an article \u201cHate speech is violent in itself and must be called out<\/strong>\u201d published in the Indian Express<\/strong> on 15<\/strong><\/span>th<\/strong> Apr 22<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Recently, the chief priest of an ashram in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Sitapur district publicly threatened sexual violence against Muslim women. It implies that the Hate speech has become a frequent phenomenon in public sphere of India.\u00a0 Why hate speech is a big issue?\u00a0 It has become one of the biggest challenges to the rule of… Continue reading Hate speech is violent in itself and must be called out\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-179506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704816100},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}