Engage broad academic expertise as a matter of informing policy; hate speech needs to be examined and restricted on the basis of the specific harm it does to wider society (such as inciting violence and propagating organised hate communities such as WhitePride and Incel.com).
Response needs to be proportional to context; specific support and protections ought to be extended to those persons or groups who receive harassment and bullying through targeted hate; specifically from those who have actively encouraged and propagated the hate and not from merely an angry drunk bystander or an immature individual with an online persona who will likely cringe at themselves five years later.
Since hate speech is a unique form of ‘criminality’ (since it is often clearly motivated the result of misunderstanding which is invested in a sense of social identity) , identification, intervention and when necessary - sentencing, needs to focus on rehabilitation and wider social awareness to prevent reoffending.
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