ABSTRACT Social networks serve as effective platforms in which users’ ideas can be spread in an easy and efficient manner. However, those ideas can be hateful and harmful, some of which may even amount to hate speech. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have internal regulatory policies in relation to hate speech and have signed a Code of Conduct on the regulation of illegal hate speech with the European Commission. This paper looks at the issue of tackling hate speech on social networks and argues that, notwithstanding the weaknesses of internal policies and their implementation, their existence, as facilitated by the Code of Conduct, serves as a light at the end of the Internet hate tunnel where issues of multiple jurisdictions as well as technological realities, such as mirror sites and more, have resulted in the task of online regulation being more than a daunting one.

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社交媒体网络上的仇恨言论：走向监管框架？

摘要 社交网络是一种有效的平台，用户的想法可以在其中以简单有效的方式传播。然而，这些想法可能是仇恨和有害的，其中一些甚至可能构成仇恨言论。YouTube、Facebook 和 Twitter 有关于仇恨言论的内部监管政策，并与欧盟委员会签署了关于监管非法仇恨言论的行为准则。本文着眼于解决社交网络上的仇恨言论问题，并认为，尽管内部政策及其实施存在弱点，但在行为准则的推动下，它们的存在可以作为互联网仇恨隧道尽头的一盏灯多个司法管辖区的问题以及技术现实，例如镜像站点等，