rther Reading
Jacob Mchangama – "Censorship as Tolerance" – How Europe's raft of hate speech laws are eroding free speech protections.
Christopher Orlet – "Insult to Injury" – Why European hate speech legislation makes for bad law.
Council of Europe – "Fact Sheet on Hate Speech" – A brief explanation of the Council of Europe's approach to hate speech regulation.
Gerard Alexander – "Illiberal Europe" – Why the increase in anti-Nazi speech laws in Europe has impoverished even mainstream political debate.
John C. Knechtle – "Holocaust Denial and the Concept of Dignity in the European Union" – A Florida State University law review article on the European approach to hate speech, and why the European Union's 2007 Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia does not provide an antidote.
Reports
Council of Europe – "Legal Measures to Combat Racism and Intolerance in the Member States of the Council of Europe" – A link to a compilation of reports on Europe's national hate speech laws.
Links
Council of Europe – "Protocol to the Convention on Cyber Crime, Related to the Prosecution of Acts of Racist and Xenophobic Nature through Computer Systems" – The text of the 2003 protocol criminalizing hate speech on t