This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Bring in tougher legislation for hate crimes/speech on social media sites
Social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat need to have tougher consequences for hate crimes and speech. Deleting and blocking accounts is not enough. Punishment for online hate speech and crime needs to be stronger. Details for individuals need to be passed to the police.
More details
Social media sites have to be responsible for the care of users.
They have to show full transparency when reporting and there should be zero tolerance for hate speech & crime and online bullying of any kind.
It’s not enough to just block or delete a page.
It should be harder to join and be monitored more thoroughly than it is at the moment.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Produce and enforce a zero-tolerance strategy to end racism on social media: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591720
Require social media platforms’ terms of use to prohibit racism and hate speech: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591760
Increase legal penalties for those convicted of online racial abuse: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/591776
Require Social media sites review every post/comment before publication: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/582820
Decisions about investigating alleged offences and prosecuting these are a matter for the police and Crown Prosecution Service, not the Government or House of Commons.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.