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Actually, no. There isn't a single place in the United States in which ""hate speech"" is illegal. And any attempts to create such laws have been soundly beaten down by the first court that they confronted. The California law that you meant regards a civil matter, not a crriminal matter. And while I do understand that this article refers to world-wide laws, I feel that it is important to point out that ""hate speech"" is only a hate crime in some of them."