The Limits to Free Speech on Social Media: On Two Recent Decisions of the Supreme Court of Norway. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nguyên Duy, Iris
• Is Part Of: Nordic journal of human rights. Volume 38:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 237
• Page End: 245
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Hate speech -- freedom of speech -- social media; Human rights -- Periodicals; Human rights -- Scandinavia -- Periodicals; 323
• DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2021.1872762
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1891-814X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In January 2020, two persons in Norway were condemned by a unanimous Supreme Court of Norway for comments posted on 'closed' Facebook groups. With the two decisions, the Supreme Court confirmed for the first time the boundaries of hateful, racist, and discriminatory speech in the context of online utterances in social media. It also established a new sanctioning standard for hate speech.