ABSTRACT This article draws on material gathered from Swedish tweets about the Roma population, in order to map different discourses. Based on this material, a legal analysis was made focusing on how the legal protection under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Swedish law for such types of expression may vary depending on the wider discursive context. This article concludes that the legal protection for hateful expressions against for instance Roma, will vary depending on the discursive context. When the expression is a direct part of a political discussion, the protection of freedom of expression will be higher. However, emphasis must also be placed on the aim, value, and accuracy of the statement, even in a political context. This will increase the possibilities to legally intervene against speech that may perhaps be triggered by an ongoing political debate, but is hateful and without value to that debate.

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言论自由还是仇恨言论？推特上罗姆人话语的法律分析

摘要 本文借鉴了从瑞典关于罗姆人的推文中收集的材料，以映射不同的话语。基于此材料，进行了法律分析，重点关注欧洲人权公约 (ECHR) 和瑞典法律对此类表达的法律保护如何因更广泛的话语背景而异。本文的结论是，针对诸如罗姆人的仇恨言论的法律保护将根据话语上下文而有所不同。当言论直接成为政治讨论的一部分时，对言论自由的保护会更高。然而，即使在政治背景下，也必须强调声明的目的、价值和准确性。