I’ve debated this with Europeans before. They are under the delusion that “it’s different” when only “hate speech” is banned. They don’t seem to understand that when the state can define “hate speech” as whatever they want, there are no more guarantees on any kind of free speech at all.
I think part of the short circuit in their brain is that Europeans have an ingrained prejudice against admitting that Americans might actually be right about anything. Sure, they like the idea of free speech, but they have to find a better way of implementing it than we did, because we have to be backwards about it somehow.
The US doesn’t have free speech anymore either.
The First Amendment was supposed to protect political speech and the free exercise of religion.
The Congress and courts have turned that on its head. First the Courts uses the 1st to protect pornography and then Congress decided to.attack political speech to ensure their own reelection
Free speech will always be under attack by those in power and those that think they have all the answers to how things ought to be.
We need to jealously protect our rights or we won’t have them and we have been doing a crappy job.