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The Supreme Court blinks when it comes to Hate Speech

By declining contempt proceedings, denying guidelines, and acquitting the accused without inquiry, the Court in Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay undoes what it spent years building

Selectively targeted says journalist Saba Naqvi, named in Hate Speech FIR

"I am committed to the secular and liberal ethos of India and stand against any fundamentalism, hate speech and injustice," Saba Naqvi said

UP: Media adds communal tone to Kanpur Qazi’s words

In second statement, the Qazi clarifies that he was only speaking for those wrongly arrested by the police

Who’s Who in BJP’s List of Hate Offenders, 38 in all, 27 elected officials

India’s most dominant party, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a long overdue exercise, has used ‘IT experts’ to track hate offenders in its midst

Hate Offender Swami Jitendranand calls for lynching of pregnant women, CJP moves NCM

Swami claims every ‘cow killer’ or anti-national should fall out of a ripped womb of Muslim women

UP: Hindu Mahasabha’s Pooja Pandey given police notice for hate speech

UP’s Aligarh second place to report unrest due to hate-filled speech after Kanpur

Assam Hindutva leader Satya Ranjan Borah demands cow protection, mosque surveys and religious education in schools

The serial Hate Offender made all these demands at a recent public press conference

BJP dumps spokesperson Nupur Sharma, Naveen K. Jindal in damage control move

Action comes after outrage from Gulf nations, days after Sharma Jindal made derogatory remarks about the Prophet

Hate Watch: Couldn’t NKTV have stopped BJP’s Shiladitya Dev from making anti-Muslim comments on air?

Host Paragmani Aditya did little to intervene or stop the anti-minority diatribe, even when Deb claimed the country was his and Muslims were “allowed” to live here

Hindutva inspired muscleman spews castist, anti-Muslim hate, while claiming victimhood

Bharat Singh Walia, a body builder, who calls himself the “modern saadhu” on YouTube trying his best to be a mascot of Hindutva

Hate Speech Up by 38% on Facebook in April, Violent Content Up by 86% on Instagram: Meta

This report released by Meta on May 31, says Facebook detected 53,200 hate speeches in April.

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