The Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy believes police need to start gathering hate crime statistics.

Dame Susan, who made the call in a speech marking UN Holocaust Remembrance Day in Wellington, says at the present time Police don’t collate hate crime statistics when responding to callouts.

Dame Susan also says New Zealand needs to get better at calling out online hatred.

And she says better restrictions are needed when it comes to online forums, and comments sections on some media outlet websites.

“Free speech is one thing, however hate speech is another,” she said.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/race-relations-commissioner-wants-police-collect-hate-crime-stats

The biggest modern social networking platforms are rife with censorship, opacity and inscrutable rules governing harassment. Many conservatives feel unfairly targeted and believe their viewpoints are being suppressed.

Enter Gab.ai, a new social networking platform that hopes to be the answer to these pressing issues.

A beta version of the site, which is a lot like Twitter with hints of Reddit, was created in a remarkably short three weeks and has let in a few hundred users for testing. While the site currently only contains basic features, its founder holds lofty goals for the platform. As it stands, the site allows you to write 300-character “tweets,” but also upvote and downvote them like on Reddit. (more…)

A French Mayor will be tried on hate charges for complaining about the fact that white Christians are being replaced with foreign born Muslims in his town.

Robert Menard, an ally of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, said that the number of Muslims in his city was a “problem”.

“In a class in the city centre in my town, 91 percent of the children are Muslims. Obviously, this is a problem. There are limits to tolerance,” Menard told French news channel LCI back in September.

On France’s first school day, Menard, who is the mayor of southern France town Beziers, also warned that the country was witnessing “the great replacement” of white Christians with Muslim immigrants.

“I just described the situation in my town,” Menard told AFP. “It is not a value judgement, it’s a fact. It’s what I can see.”

The trial is set for March 8 in Paris.

The Mayor’s comments are similar in nature to those made by right-wing Dutch leader Geert Wilders, who was found guilty of “inciting discrimination” after asking a room full of supporters if they wanted “more or fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands.

Over the last 18 months, Europe has suffered a number of devastating terror attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists in the aftermath of a migrant wave that has seen millions of Muslims pour into the continent.

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/december2016/221216_french_mayor.htm

MEDDLING Brussels has said the British press should not report when terrorists are Muslims in a slew of demands to the Government to crack down on the media.

A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016.

Blaming the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said: “It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.”

The report makes a whopping 23 recommendations to Theresa May’s Government for changes to criminal law, the freedom of the press, crime reporting and equality law. (more…)