This is the first week in my life I've been genuinely afraid for the First Amendment. Charlottesville is the one event that pushed government content neutrality

This is the first week in my life I've been genuinely afraid for the First Amendment. Charlottesville is the one event that pushed government content neutrality outside the Overton window. Up until now, most people (or at least the loudest) treated groups like the EFF and ACLU as kind of like garbage collectors: they do an unpleasant job, defending people who say wicked things, in order to protect the rest of us from government persecution when someone we don't like has the reins. This is the first time I've seen this view being described as literal Nazi sympathizing. It's the first time when hate speech laws are considered so necessary that we're willing to give that power to the Trump administration of all people.