Can social media become less hateful by law? Germany is trying it — and failing, critics say.

BERLIN — When 32-year-old German teacher and academic book author Bahar Aslan took to Twitter this week to accuse authorities of not doing enough to investigate several alleged xenophobic crimes, she hardly assumed that in doing so she would soon be accused of having broken the law, too. After all, freedom of speech is enshrined in the German Constitution. […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/01/13/can-social-media-become-less-hateful-by-law-germany-is-trying-it-and-failing-critics-say/