@techreport{LetsiouHaeuslerBeckenkampRoethlisberger2019,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Letsiou H{\"a}usler, Anna and Beckenkamp, Nicolas and R{\"o}thlisberger, Livia},
  title     = {New Dimensions of an Old Dilemma},
  series = {Staat, Recht und Politik - Forschungs- und Diskussionspapiere},
  journal   = {Staat, Recht und Politik - Forschungs- und Diskussionspapiere},
  number    = {7},
  editor    = {Weiß, Norman},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2509-6974},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42486},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424869},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Unfolding the history of one of the oldest human val-ues, the freedom of expression, while defining its limits, is a complicated task. Does freedom stop where hate starts? This very old dilemma is -now more than ever before- revealing new dimensions. Politicians and new laws aim at regulating free expression, while disagree-ments over such regulation gradually become a source of endless conflict in newly formed multicultural, inter-connected, and digitized societies. The example of the Network Enforcement Act is used to understand the idea of restrictive legal practices in Germany, but also to enlighten the fact that law is a human construction which was created in order to regulate communication among individuals. Alternative practices, to straight legal ones, are summarized to show other dimensions of regulating hate speech without involving top-down approaches. The article proposes the approach of re-storative justice as a combination of legal and medita-tive practices in cases of hate speech. One advantage of the restorative justice approach elaborated in this arti-cle is the potential to remedy the inner hate and the pain, both of the victim and perpetrator. Finally, reveal-ing parts of history and new aspects of the 'hate speech-puzzle', leads to a questioning of contemporary social structures that possibly generate hate itself.},
  language  = {en}
}