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Lithuania seeks new ways to combat online abuse
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Gay pride in Vilnius. / D. Umbrasas/LRT
With online hate crime falling below the threshold of law enforcement, human rights experts in Lithuania are mulling new ways to combat abuse.
Openly gay Lithuanian member of parliament Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius constantly receives hateful comments and threats on social media. “If I saw someone like you on the street, I would beat them up,” Raskevičius reads one of the messages he received online.
He has repeatedly appealed to law enforcement regarding such comments. But the culprits could not always be found, or only received a warning if identified.