He was speaking at the WorldPride Human Rights Conference in Amsterdam. He said that many countries are backsliding on equal rights legislation and that homophobic hate speech is becoming more overt and aggressive. One shouted “shame on you being at a human rights conference when you’re complicit in genocide.” Online hatred risingHomophobia is spreading so rapidly because big social media companies are “barely moderating content for hate speech,” Jetten said. The conference comes 25 years after the Netherlands became the first country in the world to open marriage to same-sex couples.