The U.S. doesn't need to rewrite its hate speech rules
We dodged more than one societal bullet with the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict. We also avoided an explosion of online hate speech that many expected to fuel street violence — although the preparations for that didn't involve armored personnel carriers. Unlike in Europe, where hate speech is increasingly criminalized and the governments penalize the platforms for not suppressing it en masse, our government is impotent to interfere with even the most divisive speech, while private entities have tremendous power to censor anything under their control — and to mess up doing it time and again. In Germany, the larger Internet platforms are being forced, on pain of enormous fines, to remove often vaguely defined hate speech in a matter of hours. Even before he was deplatformed for his own hate speech and incitement, it's safe to assume his administration would have made aggressive use of any law allowing it to punish internet platforms for their content moderation decisions.
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