Everyone should be able to say whatever they want even if it offends people
Hate speech is different from freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech = “I hate apples” “I don’t want the company to be sold” “I love holidaying in Bali” “The CEO is laundering money” “This specific nation is likely committing ethnic cleansing for ____ reasons” etc including no media restriction. These are opinions that don’t harm others
Hate speech = “I believe *insert ethnicity* aren’t human” “We should kill all *ethnicity* because I hate them” etc these are baseless and bigoted words
Hate speech is one of the bases for the pyramid of hate. Hate speech can lead to discrimination, violence and eventually genocide. This is because hate speech normalises these ideas.
In fact, Stanton’s stages of genocide specifies hate speech as a sign before genocide occurs.
To bastardise Nietzsche “I disapprove of what you say, and your right to say it will lead to Death.”