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- Title
Warring With Words: Exploring the Tension between Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression in Nigeria.
- Authors
Adibe, Jideofor
- Abstract
Nigerians seem to enjoy profiling and pouring invectives on one another especially whenever they congregate in their in-groups to discuss the Nigerian condition. In fact the comments section in many online articles on controversial issues about Nigeria often appears to be open arenas for inter-ethnic, inter-regional or inter-religious fingerpointing, in which hate speeches are readily deployed to castigate the others while defending the in-group. The ease with which Nigerians indulge in venomous hate-filled ethnic, religious and regional profiling on a whim raises a fundamental question of how to control the menace without undermining the free speech principle that is a key building block of democracy.
- Subjects
HATE speech; FREEDOM of expression; NIGERIAN politics &; government; ETHNIC relations; SOCIAL distance
- Publication
Annals. Computer Science Series, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
1583-7165
- Publication type
Article