“Hass-melden” platform (I8-EN)

Description

The Hate Reporting Platform can be used to report hate comments, racist attacks, insults or threats. Reports whose contents are presumably relevant under criminal law are forwarded directly to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), processed by the police and, if necessary, prosecuted under criminal law. It is offered by Reconquista Internet that is an active, non-partisan and independent civil rights movement. (https://www.facebook.com/pg/ReconquistaNetz/about/?ref=page_internal)

  • Language
  • German
  • Country
  • Germany
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Summary

The Hate Reporting Platform can be used to report hate comments, racist attacks, insults or threats. Reports whose contents are presumably relevant under criminal law are forwarded directly to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), processed by the police and, if necessary, prosecuted under criminal law. It is offered by Reconquista Internet that is an active, non-partisan and independent civil rights movement. (https://www.facebook.com/pg/ReconquistaNetz/about/?ref=page_internal)

Category

initiative

Keywords

legal, report, criminal law

Aims

The platform intends to improve the communication in social networks, to achieve a better behaviour in terms of respect, rationality and humanity and to make clear that the net is not a legal vacuum.

Target group

Everybody who reads racist or hate attacks on social networks can report this anonymously to the platform.

Method

Report form, explanation of legal procedure regarding hate comments, statistics about reports and forwarded cases.

Contributor

media k GmbH