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The director of Fiji's Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission Ashwin Raj says it's time to think about laws to regulate racist hate speech on social media.

Ashwin Raj, chair of Fiji's media authority MIDA Photo: RNZI/Republika

Mr Raj warned it could descend into violence if left unchecked particularly ahead of next year's election.

Mr Raj who was speaking to FBC TV's 4 The Record programme said racial stereotyping was flourishing on social media.

He said prominent people and politicians in Fiji are what he called 'trash talking' people via sites like Facebook.

He agreed it was a tough ask to monitor thousands of social media posts but he said Germany was thinking it through and it was time to see how other jurisdictions are dealing with the issue.

Mr Raj said a first start would be looking at the Facebook page of "one particular political party" where hate speech he said was "freely flourishing."

He said the state was internationally and constitutionally legally obligated to ensure that racial discrimination was prohibited.

"We need to start thinking about how we're going to regulate our conduct on social media without producing a chilling effect," said Mr Raj.

"Fiji is made out to be this country which is always throttling freedom of expression. Nobody wants to talk about racism, nobody wants to talk about the fact that people use the freedom of expression argument to actually justify racist practices."

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FTSE-listed bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral has claimed a world first technology by taking full end-to-end control of its licensed video content.

In partnership with iGame Media, Ladbrokes Coral has developed a new video streaming platform which merges the enterprises combined API video content providing users with a unified front-end experience using a single player across all digital outlets.

Updating the market, Ladbrokes Coral development team stated that the bespoke platform was a crucial leap forward in a changing strategy as the merged enterprise develops new co-synergies.

Boosting operational efficiencies, the video platform will reduce the Groups overall acquisition to delivery cycle down to a matter of days and will enhance market engagement and distribution of content.

iGame Media developed Ladbrokes Corals new streaming platform in such a way that they only require a single sportsbook integration API to map all video events and additionally connect with multiple rights holders as well.

This means video events from major third party rights owners are also mapped via this single API, drastically reducing the multiple resources to support sportsbook integrations.

This revolutionary technology, with the industrys first single platform video solution, allows unlimited rights holders or content aggregators to bring their offering via Ladbrokes Coral in a very short timeframe, said Ian Chuter, Chief Operating Officer Digital at Ladbrokes Coral Group.

It places Ladbrokes Coral in a unique place to stay abreast of technical changes and ahead of our competition. It also delivers a unified solution for our customers who can access a single player across any platform.

Eddie Mumtaz, Managing Director of iGame Media, commented on the platform We are very excited for Ladbrokes Coral Group; working with their technical teams and strategists over the last few months has been a fantastic journey for both us and them. Our single API video platform is the future, driving a lot of cost savings for the Ladbrokes Coral operation, and equally allowing a single team to manage all their video property, giving users a unified playback experience.

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Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday alleged that there was a pervasive, systematic and infringed control over the owners of media by the Narendra Modi government.

Today, believe me, there is all pervasive, systematic infringed control over the owners of the media. You talk to any journalist in Delhi, they will tell you that. Stories are simply killed. This is a serious problem, he said in an interaction after the launch of his book Fearless in opposition - Power and Accountability in Bengaluru.

The former Union minister said there may have been control over media during Emergency, but that was an aberration.

The control over media today is unparalleled. Maybe the control was there during Emergency, but that was an aberration. We have admitted that aberration and also apologised, he said.

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He claimed that it would be a straight fight between Congress and BJP in the next round of elections as there were no major regional parties in some states including Gujarat and Rajasthan.

In the next round of elections, there will be a straight fight between BJP and Congress in at least seven or eight states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh among others, as there are no major regional parties in these states.

All regional parties were defeated in the last state elections including Uttar Pradesh, he said.

Chidambaram, however, said he did not mean it was the end of regional parties.

The Congress leader said the next round of elections would be very crucial for both Congress and BJP and would decide the strength of these two parties.

The next round of elections is very crucial. This will decide whether the Congress party has increased its strength. It may not be number one, but a number two certainly becomes a strong number two. Whether BJP is going to run over the Congress, I wont know, he said.

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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today alleged that there was a "pervasive, systematic and infringed control" over the owners of media by the Modi government.

"Today, believe me, there is all pervasive, systematic infringed control over the owners of the media. You talk to any journalist in Delhi, they will tell you that. Stories are simply killed. This is a serious problem," he said in an interaction after the launch of his book "Fearless in opposition - Power and Accountability" here.

The former Union Minister said there may have been control over media during Emergency, but that was an "aberration".

"The control over media today is unparalleled. Maybe the control was there during Emergency, but that was an aberration. We have admitted that aberration and also apologised," he said.

He claimed that it would be a straight fight between Congress and BJP in the next round of elections as there were no major regional parties in some states including Gujarat and Rajasthan.

"In the next round of elections, there will be a straight fight between BJP and Congress in at least seven or eight states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh among others, as there are no major regional parties in these states.

"All regional parties were defeated in the last state elections including Uttar Pradesh," he said. Chidambaram, however, said he did not mean it was the end of regional parties.

The Congress leader said the next round of elections would be very crucial for both Congress and BJP and would decide the strength of these two parties.

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Estremera: Taking control of your social media life, Accountability Sun.Star IT'S that state of being accountable for one's actions. A state that seems to be lacking these days. Newton's Third Law states: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. But it seems that there are those who would see nothing wrong in ...

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