The nutshell: Foxman and Wolf—both of the Anti-Defamation League—argue that Internet hate speech is a dangerous virtual epidemic that threatens us all in real life. But they don’t want to fight it in the courtroom. They prefer the court of public opinion—by having people and Internet companies self-regulate, by educating children in and outside school, and by generating positive counter-speech.

Literary lovechild of: Jeremy Waldron’s The Harm in Hate Speech and Stanley Fish’s There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It’s a Good Thing, Too.

You’ll find it on your bookshelf if: You’re still mad at that forum poster who called you a “dumbass.”

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