Finland / Police urged children to report their parents if they write about this on Facebook

Finnish police invites children to report their parents who use hate speech against politicians via Facebook.

According to the local media, this is part of the latest campaign of the Finnish police to reduce hate speech of politicians in the country.Over the past few years, the Finnish authorities follow the messages and content on social networks in order to reduce the "hate speech" in that country.Police said that so far recorded instances of hate speech against immigrants, religious minorities and politicians.

Finnish police via a video posted on the YouTube channel calling on children to report their parents who hate speech.Police reminded to insult someone on Facebook, messages or photographs, may constitute a criminal offense in Finland.Human rights activists believe that such a rule is an open threat to freedom of speech.

• 25 Jan, 2017
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