ABSTRACT

Acknowledging that the government is a user of social networks may help us to better understand its attempt to regulate them. This paper draws on the French case to show different ways of regulating hate speech online. It then turns to the peculiar case of hate speech expressed by the government. There are good reasons to consider that government hate speech can be restricted in Europe as well as in the United States. Europe and the United States however pull apart when the government regulate the discussion space below its online speech. Here, European governments are under an obligation to fight hate speech, when U.S. government infringes the First Amendment when it attempts to do so.

摘要

承认政府是社交网络的用户可能有助于我们更好地理解它对它们进行监管的尝试。本文借鉴法国案例，展示了监管网络仇恨言论的不同方式。然后转向政府表达的仇恨言论的特殊案例。有充分的理由认为，在欧洲和美国都可以限制政府的仇恨言论。然而，当政府规范其在线演讲下方的讨论空间时，欧洲和美国就分道扬镳了。在这里，当美国政府试图违反第一修正案时，欧洲政府有义务打击仇恨言论。