“Hate speech is a collective responsibility,” says politician Lana Prlic, herself a victim of a mass online hate campaign. Photo via her Facebook page.

Speech meant to intimidate and wound flourishes in media and online, but you’d hardly know it from reading police reports or court documents.

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