South Africans can face significant penalties for sharing hate speech on WhatsApp

[mylesillidge]

Politician ordered to pay R50,000 damages after defending a WhatsApp message she forwarded to a group

A Free State High Court ruling has highlighted that South Africans can face significant penalties for sharing hate speech on WhatsApp, even if they did not author the content.

MyBroadband previously reported on legal experts' views that disseminating WhatsApp messages containing hate speech could land people in legal trouble.

 

[neoprema]

The golden question: does it work both/all ways?

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Ah this again...

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

The golden question: does it work both/all ways?

NOPE it does not

 

[RedViking]

Recycled. Next.

 

[saor]

It defines hate speech as intentionally publishing material that can provoke or promote hate.

If someone says they hate the ANC - is that hate speech?

 

[Vrotappel]

Imagine the punishment for implementing 145 race laws against a small minority.

 

[RedViking]

Can you share Kill the Boer EFF clips ?

 

[Urist]

Brought to you by the ministry of .... whatever 1984 INGSOC dpartment is relevant. The racist jokes i make with my darkie or boesman colleagues will be interpreted as hate speech.

 

[Flanders]

The golden question: does it work both/all ways?

 

[Azbubu]

The golden question: does it work both/all ways?

The golden question: did you read the article?

 

[neoprema]

The golden question: did you read the article?

Yes because that is how its going to actually work lol.

 

[dualmeister]

Yet the President and numerous other politicians include hate speech when they address the public and nothing happens to them.

 

[Lupus]

Freedom of speech only exists if you follow the guidelines and don't say anything bad mkay

 

[etienne_marais]

Do you see what I see? Truth is an offense
Your silence for your confidence
Do you hear what I hear? Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must
Do you feel what I feel? Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?
Do you take what I take? Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd

[Pre-Chorus]
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

[Chorus]
Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception

 

[Bad Ballie]

If someone says they hate the ANC - is that hate speech?

No, that would be common sense, surely.

 

[Hemi300c]

Well if things don't go viral they get ignored in SA.

 

[Lawnchairman]

Legacy media not giving this more coverage for something that happens everyday in life.

 

[Brian_G]

Let's test this......

I think the ANC stinks, in almost every respect!!!


........ nah, no knocks at my door

 

[wingnut771]

No, that would be common sense, surely.

What if the ANC is offended?