Not Your Father's Marketplace of Ideas: Hate Speech and the Fraudulent Marketplace of Ideas Created by Social Media

Authors

George Mixon

Abstract

Freedom of speech jurisprudence in the United States and Germany is strikingly similar despite resulting in opposing views on the government’s ability to regulate and curtail white supremacist, Nazi-related, and extreme right-wing hate speech on the internet and social media. Recently, however, the Supreme Court has begun to open the door to the possibility of regulation when the speech constitutes a true threat. While still a higher standard to prove than that of Germany, it is now within Congress’s purview to regulate white supremacist, Nazi-related, and extreme right-wing hate speech as these ideologies proliferate and continue to hurt both citizens of the United States and people around the world.

Recommended Citation

George Mixon, Not Your Father's Marketplace of Ideas: Hate Speech and the Fraudulent Marketplace of Ideas Created by Social Media, 34 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 399 (2020).
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr/vol34/iss1/4