During the preparation of the Rulebook on program standards of electronic publications, it is necessary to include representatives of the portal, in order to find the best solutions, said the member of the Council of the Agency for Electronic Communications Zlatko Vujović.
At a conference on hate speech on the Internet by the NGO Juventas, he noted that he expects such a regulation, which would regulate standards and establish responsibilities for the publication of such content, to be ready by the end of the year.
The Director of the Agency, Abaz Beli Džafić, said that the Agency shares this position, but also that the aim of these rules is not censorship or impositions on portal owners.
"In the environment, this area is regulated so that the regulators make money from the portals, which pay a certain compensation," he said.
He conveyed the Agency's position that the portals have enriched the information system of Montenegro, as well as that, despite the problems, a more responsible attitude towards the comments made by users is noticeable.
"We want to eliminate hate speech from all segments. Through comments, some want to discredit information, and we have noticed from the Agency that there are a lot of organized groups, often political, that put their negative comments on texts," he said.
The editor of the "CdM" portal, Aleksandra Obradović, noted that the portal encounters the problem of deleting comments in real time both from the portal and from social networks, given the limited capacities.
The editor of the "Vijesti" portal, Srdan Kosović, noted that the lack of capacity cannot be an excuse for publishing inappropriate content.
He pointed to a problem related to new media, such as social networks, which are not regulated, nor should they be, but are often a source of hate speech.
"The response of the "mainstream" media must be critical towards such phenomena," he said.
Kosović noted that for the option to leave a trace, in the form of a "deleted by admin" message, that the administrator deleted a comment, because complete censorship distorts the image of society.
"Comments are a reflection of the state of society, so if there were only affirmative type comments on some news, without a trace of inappropriate comments, it would send a message to the information consumer that the situation is different from what it really is."
He noted that it must be taken into account that the culture of dialogue between public officials, such as MPs, is at a very low and even street level, and therefore it is unrealistic to expect that comments on portals in such a state of society will be a source of constructive discussions.
"Hate speech is also used by public officials, and they are not adequately sanctioned, and this sends a message to society," warned Kosović.
The editor of the Analitika portal, Draško Đuranović, said that hate speech through comments is a social danger that portals must be aware of.
"We cannot talk about censorship when we delete comments that are hate speech and we have no right to talk about the capacities we must have," he said.
Đuranović also said that he is in favor of the option that comments are not posted in real time, but after they have been approved by the administrator.
Vujović also agreed with that, pointing out that the number of comments does not necessarily affect the readership of the portal.
Dijana Uljarević from the MNE Forum said that the most common source of hate speech is religious, national and LGBT population issues, and that they are currently working on a campaign that will try to reach as many users as possible.
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