This book takes a combined multidisciplinary and comparative approach to the contemporary problem of hate speech bringing together methodologies from sociology, media studies, political science, and law, and including both empirical analysis and theoretical argument. The primary focus is on the US and the UK while the particular question of regulation compares some of the different strategies for dealing with the problem of hate speech in media and constitutional law adopted in other countries, including: France, Hungary, Spain, Germany, Kenya, Australia, and South Africa.