Näthat. En analys av integritet, straffskydd och demokrati.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the proposed legislation Integritet och straffskydd, presented by the Swedish government, concerning increased protection of online hate and personal integrity on the Internet. Through a method of triangulation this study examines the proposed legislation in relation to Facebook's community policy regarding harmful and hateful content, as well as the policy regarding the digital platforms of the public service television company Sveriges Television. The intent of this triangulation is to search for a correlation in order to understand what the proposed legislation in fact will entail and how actual circumstances will be affected. The analysis shows that the policies authored by Facebook and Sveriges Television contains important differences, which indicates significant divergence in attitude towards harmful and hateful content. The result of this study also emphasizes the importance of the proposed legislation in order to display an urgently required opinion on national level regarding online hate.