You cant give people a pass on hate crime because it is happening online. You risk excusing it and ultimately then normalising it. "Oh it is ok - their hideous

You cant give people a pass on hate crime because it is happening online. You risk excusing it and ultimately then normalising it. "Oh it is ok - their hideous torrent of systemmatic abuse calling for <ethnic group A> babies to be drowned at birth is totally A-ok because they said it on twitter so no harm done." No no no. This sort of thing cannot have any "get out" clauses where it is allowed in some circumstances but not others.