Italy to tackle online racism
Italy to tackle online racism
Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge said on Thursday the government is looking into new ways of tackling racism, with a focus on the online sphere.
The announcement comes just a day after a councillor was found guilty of inciting racial violence on Facebook.
"We are studying new legislative instruments to ban racial hatred, including on the Internet and social networks," Kyenge said on Twitter.
Councillor Dolores Valandro, a former member of the anti-immigration Northern League party, was found guilty of inciting sexual violence for racial motives with a Facebook post.
In June, Valandro posted a photograph of Kyenge, Italy's first black minister, with the comment, "Won't someone rape her?" The post was reportedly in response to an article about the alleged attempted rape of two Romanian girls by a Somali.
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