We just wrote about the big social media companies agreeing to quickly take down content for „hate speech“ in the EU, and warned about how problematic this was. The definition of „hate speech“ matters quite a bit, and we‘ve pointed out in the past how „hate speech“ laws frequently morph into a tool for government censorship. So perhaps it should be no surprise at all that just around the same time that Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft agreed to start censoring „hate speech“ in the EU, we get another story from the Associated Press about how Russia is using its own hate speech laws to imprison dozens of critics who mocked the government on social media.