Ms Karen White:

-----and our policies, including working with law enforcement if investigations relating to violent threats are triggered. Counter-speech, as I said, is one measure in what should be a wider multi-pronged approach to what are wider societal problems in many cases. We need to challenge the hateful discourse that we are seeing. Counter-speech is one measure within that approach. I was not laying everything at the feet of counter-speech, or implying that it has the potential to remedy all of the problems we see online. It is simply one measure that can be taken. As academic studies have shown and as the European Commission has attested to, we see positive results when those who engage in abusive behaviour such as racist activity online are challenged or called out. There is some benefit to being able to have these conversations in the public domain and challenge these ideologies, intolerances and abuses. This is just one measure that can be taken.