Google decided that an anti-Islamic video that provoked violence worldwide was not hate speech under its rules because it did not specifically incite violence against Muslims, even if it mocked their faith. Nonetheless, Peter Spiro, a professor at Temple's Beasley School of Law, said Google was justified in restricting access to the video. "Maybe the hate speech/offensive speech distinction can be elided by the smart folks in Google's foreign ministry," he said. "If material is literally setting off global firestorms through its dissemination online, Google will strategically pull the plug."