Almost No One Noticed the Hate Speech Law That Just Took Effect — or the Lawsuit Against It

By Selwyn Duke

It was already the case that certain conservative websites have had to eliminate their comment sections under threat from Big Tech, which has the ability to take those sites offline (as it did with Parler). Now the New York state government has gotten in on the act, instituting a “hate speech” law that compels any site allowing comments to police its users’ speech — or face punishment. As law professor Eugene Volokh puts it, the state wants to “conscript” us to “violate the Constitution.”

The law, which took effect Saturday, sparked an 11th-hour lawsuit filed by the nonprofit group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) on behalf of three plaintiffs: Volokh, who runs the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog; Peter Thiel-backed video site Rumble; and the crowdfunding entity Locals.

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