Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Article 17, Memory Politics, and the ECtHR's Selective Silencing

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Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Article 17, Memory Politics, and the ECtHR's Selective Silencing

reason.com/volokh/2025/07/17/hate-speech-and-the-european-court-of-human-rights-article-17-memory-politics-and-the-ecthrs-selective-silencing

In this fourth guest entry on The Volokh Conspiracy, I examine a domain where the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the now defunct European Commission on Human Rights (EComHR) has shown a bold willingness to restrict speech, namely speech related to totalitarianism and…

This story appeared on reason.com, 2025-07-17 12:01:18.