LANA’S AND AYLA’S online moves are pertinent to a question that lingers here, at the end of the book: What can America do about the hate movement? Tech companies can identify and ban hate speech, but this process inevitably becomes a game of Whac-a-Mole. It’s not enough, and it never will be. Similarly, bringing the law to bear on hate speech and crimes is necessary but remedial—levying penalties for specific wrongdoing won’t vaccinate America against far-right extremism.
