Hate Speech and Minorities: Redefining Free Speech

Abstract

The starting point of this paper consist in the redefinition of free speech, as well as its formal and informal limitations, in the context of hyperexposure consequence of the digital revolution. With this purpose, in addition to the description of this reality, some practices derived from the use of social network as a political strategy will be considered. For example, the so-called cancel culture, taking into account the informal restriction to free speech created by this scenario. Likewise, this article also analyses the hate speech legal framework, and the issues that its criminalization supposes from the free speech protection, considering its trivialisation as a consequence of ignoring minorities and vulnerable groups protection as its guiding criteria.