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Nzimande takes aim at SA newspapers for 'failing to regulate online versions' Kingdom Mabuza, Business Day, Johannesburg, 6 January 2015 South African Communist Party (SACP) secretary-general Blade Nzimande has chastised South African newspapers for failing to regulate their online versions. Speaking at the commemoration of the 20-year anniversary of the death of SACP leader Joe Slovo, at the Avalon cemetery in Soweto on Tuesday, Mr Nzimande stopped short of calling for censorship of readers' comments published online. Mr Nzimande said newspapers allowed racists the space to "hurl insults". He questioned newspapers' positions on racism since he said there was no action taken to censor racist comments. "In the name of Joe Slovo we need to intensify the fight against racism on all fronts. There is too much racism and hate speech on the internet. "Leave alone Twitter and Facebook. What we are concerned about as the SACP is all those media houses who have got internet platforms. They must take responsibility for people who comment on stories. "The hatred, the hate speech, the racism, the sexism that is on this (online) you cannot have newspapers allowing something on the internet which it cannot print in its print version. It is despicable, we are calling on SANEF and all media houses to take responsibility for what gets written there. If you allow people to respond to your articles on the internet you must take responsibility for that." Mr Nzimande said the South African Human Rights Commission must intervene against the racism which has flooded the internet. "In future those media houses are going to be sued for what gets written there. We are calling on the South African Human Rights Commission to monitor and recommend action that needs to be taken about this racism which is being peddled, especially on the platforms of media houses," he said. From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/media/2015/01/06/nzimande-takes-aim-at-sa-n ewspapers-for-failing-to-regulate-online-versions -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
