“…except as a punishment for crime” -13th amendment

Maybe “former” slave plantation isn’t an accurate description.

Hate speech in the United States

In a Supreme Court case on the issue, Matal v. Tam (2017), the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no “hate speech” exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the U.S. government may not discriminate against speech on the basis of the speaker’s viewpoint.

It’s not a crime on its own in the US, but if it incites imminent lawless action that can be a crime.

The cars already have decent GPUs to process the camera data for driving assistance features, so someone at the company probably just thought it would be neat to do something with that computing power when it’s not being used for driving.