Facebook also subject to penal law

In the biggest online network Facebook, Slovakian right-wing extremist groups - one counting as many as 40,000 members - are publicly attacking their country's Roma population as well as state support for the minority. The liberal daily Sme is unhappy that neither the country's deputy prime minister responsible for minorities nor the minister of the interior see a reason to intervene: "The law is clear. 'Those who publicly ... incite hatred against a race or ethnic group' are guilty of a crime, and subject to a prison sentence of up to three years. From a legal point of view it makes absolutely no difference whether the ethnic hatred stems from drunken tavern-goers, right-wing 'militiamen' on public squares, rowdies in a stadium or members of a social network on the Internet. Facebook is a public space like any other. ... Calls for hatred in the Internet are far more dangerous than comparable acts in a neighbourhood pub."

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