Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: The Low Threshold Hatred Paradigm—When "Offence" Is Enough to Restrict Speech

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Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: The Low Threshold Hatred Paradigm—When "Offence" Is Enough to Restrict Speech

reason.com/volokh/2025/07/16/hate-speech-and-the-european-court-of-human-rights-the-low-threshold-hatred-paradigm-when-offence-is-enough-to-restrict-speech

In this third post in The Volokh Conspiracy guest series, I examine a critical issue in the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) hate speech jurisprudence: its embrace of what I term the "low threshold hatred paradigm." Under this approach, expressions that offend, insult, ridicule,…

This story appeared on reason.com, 2025-07-16 12:01:06.