Protects individuals from online harmful content by holding online platforms (eg. social media & search services) accountable by giving regulators the power to act where users are exposed to abuse, threats, or hate online.
Protects individuals from discrimination based on nine protected characteristics (such as sex, race, religion, age and disability etc) in various settings, including employment, education and access to services.
Incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law, requiring public bodies to act compatibly with these rights and compelling courts to interpret legislation in a way that aligns with them. Most relevant are highlighted.
Criminalises using words / behaviour, or displaying any written material intended to stir up racial and religious hatred. However, for racial hatred actions only have to be abusive but have to be threatening for religious hatred.
It introduced racially and religiously aggravated offences, creating more serious versions of existing crimes where the offence was motivated by hostility towards someone's race or religion.
Harassment including stalking, intimidation, and persistent online abuse motivated by hostility towards a person's race or religion can become a hate crime, carrying higher penalties than standard harassment.
This Act targets a specific form of football-related hate crime making it an offence to make racist chants involving threatening, abusive, or insulting content based on colour, race, or ethnic/national origins.
For prosecuting grossly offensive communications (e.g. letters, electronic messages, and social media posts) intended to cause distress or anxiety and motivated by hostility toward someone's race or religion.
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