When people were upset at Substack for hosting Nazis, multiple people told me that Germany’s laws prohibiting hate speech were the right way to do it (often claiming incorrectly that the US had similar laws or regulations).

I told those people that restrictions on speech would inevitably be used against points of view they agreed with that needed to be heard, when those became “hate speech” from the point of view of the powerful.

Every one of these people told me no, that’s not how it works, they’re only going to restrict actually hateful speech, so there’s no problem.