In the meantime, individual cases and court opinions add more problems to the already growing problem called the constitutionality of hate speech. Hate speech on the .
Internet is one of those problems, unique, but part of the whole picture. .
I am against hate speech, but all people no matter their beliefs are entitled to freedom of speech like the next person, but this does not mean that I endorse the views they express. Its just that people should be able to be free of material on the Internet that insults them. The Internet is way most of the hate speech material is presented to the world. Like for example, such things as the beliefs the nazis that of Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, etc.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had an interesting statement in his Letter from Birmingham Jail that pertains to the subject at hand. Dr. King stated that any law that degrades human personality is unjust and that any law that uplifts human personality is just (Jacobus, 159). However, the First Amendment allows for freedom of speech and protects all speech. There are statements made by certain organizations, groups, or people that degrade human personality or character. So, does this mean that the First Amendment is unjust to Dr. King? I believe if looked at it this way, he would believe that it is unjust.
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Henry David Thoreau also had a few ideas that correlate to the topic as well, such as ideas about society. He states that men speak of moving society but have no resting-place without it (Jacobus, 144). What he is trying to say is that men are trying all the time to make our society a better one. Nevertheless, the question I have is how is this possible if such things like hate speech exist? People get mad when other people talk down on them and they usually don't get alone with those people. This type of talk is all over the Internet, which everybody in society has access to. If people continue to post things on the Internet, how are people supposed to overcome all the hatred in our world today? Moreover, in order to move forward as a society like Thoreau says, we need to be in harmony with each other rather than fighting with each other.