Oddbean new post about login | logout In the US, the First Amendment phrase "freedom of speech" is prefaced by "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the" meaning it was not seen as a positive right that others owe you but rather a negative right against government interference.
the entire edifice of "hate speech" is an offense against civil society, it is literally fascism, to dictate to people what business they may do (as opposed to everyone is the government, as in communism) yet the whole western world has turned into literal nazi germany at this point