re: #45 jaunte

Hate speech laws appear to have the effect of keeping some people’s hate inside, and close to the boiling point.

I think it’s worse than that. Criminalizing speech doesn’t change the hatred that causes the speech. Instead, it acts as a sort of evolutionary pressure (connections!) and forces the haters to hide their agenda and work undercover to achieve their goals. Rather than wiping out hatred, it ends up making it much worse, by making the haters smarter.