It‘s going to be a fun few months for German government officials as they run from one embarrassing fire to the next, hoping to keep their newly-minted „hate speech“ law from being scrapped for sheer ineptitude.

The law went live January 1st, promising hefty fines for social media companies if they don‘t remove poorly-defined „hate speech“ fast enough. This has resulted in exactly the sort of side effects the law‘s critics promised. The only remarkable thing is how fast the side effects have presented themselves.