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this is 10-4 and damn well right on

Hate speech laws have become a means of suppressing free speech in much of the western world

BTW, I believe the holocaust happened and that gay people should not be ostracised and so on and so on

but humans have to be able to judge the veracity or falsity of viewpoints based on their merit, not on some religious or governmental censorship or misguided perceptions of "civil amicability"

This is fundamental to informed governance and progress

Any judges who have ruled that hate speech laws are "constitutional" are unfit to sit on the bench and, really, should have their bar memberships revoked

It also seems obvious to me that free speech means free speech to express unpopular opinions.

Free speech to express only popular opinions is not free speech at all.

Wonderful article.
Europe is being hypocritical here by making it a crime to deny the holocaust. Freedom of speech is a basic human right that no one has a right restrict.

Some Federal court ruled that the NDAA's allowance of indefinite detention without trial is just not constitutional, duh:

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/federal-court-blocks-indefinite-military-detention/

Maybe someone could challenge the obviously unconstitutional bans on hate speech as a similar violation of the Consitution? What would it cost, or is there some publicly available way to do it?

I don't even know that direct incitements to violence should be banned

Should speech of famous American Revolutionary leaders have been banned?

There are times where even revolutionary speech cries out to be heard.

"Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
Capt John Parker at Lexington

http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/henry.shtml
Give me Liberty or Give me Death - Patrick Henry