From Infidel753:
If you support hate-speech laws, you probably assume that it would be you and people like you who get to define what constitutes “hate speech”. But it might not be. What if such laws banned telling the truth about Christianity or Republicans, the way they ban telling the truth about Islam in the Middle East and some European countries? That would actually be very plausible in our current situation, if the First Amendment didn’t exist. Trump and his supporters constantly attack the media and call for restrictions on expressing opinions they don’t like. If hate-speech laws were possible here, Colbert and Maher would have a lot more to worry about than Limbaugh (or Jones).
Censorship is seldom imposed to stop people from telling lies. Lies can be exposed and thus present little threat to the powerful. It’s those who tell uncomfortable truths that must be silenced, for they do pose a threat.