INDEPENDENT Media has, once again, come under fire from armchair commentators and a swathe of faceless social media mercenaries and bots of late, simply because it dared to present an alternative opinion to the countrys election and cabinet coalition conundrum.
The knives are out again to prevent Independent Media from continuing in business, but its these haters who could have the most to lose.
South Africa has a well-defined Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Act, within which it is important to note that even nameless, faceless trolls on social media who propagate information often false that incites or provokes people to perform a desired action that causes harm, are held accountable.
This is what the law states The offence of hate speech applies to any person who intentionally publishes, propagates, advocates, shares or communicates anything to one or more persons in a manner that could reasonably be construed to demonstrate a clear intention to be harmful or to incite harm and to promote or propagate hatred based on defined grounds.
No-one is above the law, not even the cowardly person/people behind the troll account whose X formerly Twitter handle, is TheAnonymousZA. This faceless and nameless account has the gall to ask people to believe the content of their posts.
