Hate speech can not be defined. Hate speech describes how the speech is interpreted by the audience. The same speech that is interpreted to be non-hateful by on

Hate speech can not be defined. Hate speech describes how the speech is interpreted by the audience. The same speech that is interpreted to be non-hateful by one person may be interpreted as being hateful by a different person. For any particular speech, chances are you’ll be able to find one or more people on this planet who consider it hateful. Therefor there’s as many different definitions of hate speech as there are people alive, and those definitions are just as likely to change from one moment to the next as people are. So if you want to censor hate speech, it is only possible to do so according to an opinionated perspective. The result being that you don’t actually end up censoring hate speech, you simply end up censoring speech that defies some established orthodox perspective. If you want to allow for free speech, then you must allow for the possibility that some people will consider some of that speech to be hateful (or offensive, or untrue, or dangerous...).