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>There is, however, plenty of data supporting the opposite: almost all other democracies have strikter limits on hate speech, and none of them have devolved into dictatorships.

does that mean all "hate speech" is eliminated? Please share the data.

The other problem is who decides which free speech to suppress? Who has that moral right?

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Of course it's difficult to name the exact test that draws a bright line between legal and illegal speech, because speech exists along a continuous spectrum.

But the law has literally hundreds of years of experience with such problems. The line between marketing and fraud, or porn and art is just as hard to define.

So, for example, bringing Swastikas to a protest in Germany would get you thrown in jail, and so would guns, or slogans such as "gas the jews".

It's been like that for 70 years, and you're still free to say really nasty things about Merkel without any fear of prosecution.

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