Control Freaks. Allow me to translate for you.
“Hate Speech” = Anything We Don’t Like
Leftist authoritarian control of the Narrative is critical, because they don’t argue (in the formal sense) based on facts, logic, or reason. Keep in mind, there are 2 ways, and only 2 ways, to get someone to do something.
You can try to persuade them. Or you can force them. What they cannot abide is people thinking for themselves, coming to their own conclusions. Restricting information is part of it. Making decisions can be difficult, even with complete information. They achieve their goals by cultivating a dependent, fearful, neurotic class of “ignorant” people - the gaslighting is particularly effective because control of the media means they can really mess with people’s noodle, and boy howdy, do they ever.
Recall the popularity of Rush Limbaugh. Here’s one guy who had an AM radio show, which became popular in part because he was practically the only outlet pointing out the obvious horse$hit the democrats were ladling out every day. He was just saying what everyone was saying, but had no voice in the public sphere. AM Radio! The leftists went apoplectic. Here they virtually controlled 99% of the airwaves on Television, print media, and the rest of it. One guy on a moribund outdated medium, relegated to saturday morning swaps and gardening programs, and a few baseball games.
And they couldn’t deal with that. Recall they had Congress involved trying to ban him. They even blamed him for the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing if I recall correctly.