Key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet 2011, para. 25
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- The Special Rapporteur notes the concern that the Internet may be used as a means of inciting others to commit genocide, particularly given its capacity to reach a large audience. In order to prevent any excessive and undue limitation to the right to freedom of expression, the Special Rapporteur underscores that incitement to commit genocide must first be prohibited in domestic law and that any restriction imposed, for example through blocking or removing such expression via the Internet, must only be applied after a careful assessment of the threat of such expression to directly incite genocide, including factors such as the speaker, the intended audience, the content or meaning of the speech, the socio-historical context, the mode of transmission, and other indicators as outlined by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its decision on follow-up to the declaration on the prevention of genocide (CERD/C/67/1). The Special Rapporteur also underlines that incitement to commit genocide, which is of utmost gravity, must be distinguished from other types of incitement, such as incitement to discrimination.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/290, para. 25.
- Paragraph number
- 25
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