Constitutional free speech protections create an intractable dilemma over hate speech regulation

Evidence

I also know that the hate spreaders count on people like me to defend this right, which they do not believe in at all; that they despise us for our ‘‘weakness” in doing so, that civil rights advocates would be among the first they would eliminate if they came to power, and that they would never give anyone any freedoms at all, but only their place in the execution line, if they had their murderous way. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3312 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Free speech claims now undermine most democratically enacted regulation. — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise…, 211; Hate speech rules defy clean policy because of diverse legitimate contexts — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 190; Industries equate product use with free speech to shift regulatory debate (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Hate groups exploit defenders of free speech whom they would eliminate if empowered #complicates (0.82) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3312
• Liberal free-speech defenses can function as entitlement racism #complicates (0.79)