A new crime hub will be set up with a dedicated team of officers who will receive training to help them identify offenders on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
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“With such measures, even if well-intentioned, there is a real danger of undermining our very precious freedom of speech”.
He said: “We want more police on the street, not thought police”.
Scotland Yard set up the new drive in response to a surge in racist and sexist abuse online.
The group will investigate the most serious cases of harassment reported to United Kingdom police forces.
“The Met encourages all victims of hate crime to report any incident to the police and will make every effort to hold offenders to account and bring them to justice”, he added.
The two-year project will cost an astonishing £1.7 million, with the Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) saying that this is the first time a “dedicated police team” had been set up for such a goal.
The London Mayor’s City Hall headquarters have advertised for a civilian programme manager to head up the project on a wage of £52,455.
Robert Sharp, of the anti-censorship group English PEN, said: ‘Threats of violence must of course be investigated and prosecuted, but the police need to tread carefully’.
It took Mr Chambers two years and an appeal to the High Court before his conviction was quashed.
John Cooper, the QC who defended Mr Chambers, said: ‘It does concern me that an aspect of policing is being sub-contracted to members of the public’.
In December 2015, Labour MP Neil Coyle reported to the police an alleged online death threat he received for supporting the Syrian bombing campaign.
Verity Phillips, 20, tweeted to local MP Thangam Debbonaire that she should “get in the sea” – a regular dismissive phrase used on Twitter.
The Mayor’s Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) came up with the idea due to the “increasing role that online hate played in targeting individuals and communities”.
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Mopac also found the police response to online hate crime was inconsistent, primarily because police officers were not equipped to tackle it. According to statistics, there were 42 percent more reports of hate crimes in the second half of June than there were over the same time a year ago.
