Irish Public is Failing to Report Online Racism, Hotline.ie Says.

Policy Response DateApril 10, 2012 Country: Ireland General Type: Racist discourse, Hate crime Racism and discrimination phenomena: Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Religious intolerance, Inter-ethnic, Intra-ethnic, Nationalism, Homophobia, On grounds of disability, On grounds of other belief, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Asylum seekers, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, Africans/black people Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Policing - law enforcement, Political participation, Anti-racism Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Social media (Twitter, Facebook etc.)

Hotline.ie, the Irish internet watchdog for illegal content, provides a service through which incidents of incitement to hatred can be reported anonymously online. Hotline.ie can be contacted in cases of "illegal onine activity, including child pornography, material causing incitement to hatred and fraudulent websites that try to illegally obatain a user's banking or personal details."

However, it is argued that there has been a failure by the Irish public to make use of said service.

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