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<p>You might think <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-blasphemy-laws-are-great-for-tyrants-terrible-for-dissidents">hate speech bans</a> are a good idea. Think again.</p>
<p>Over the past two months, campuses have roiled with protests and divisive slogans about the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/israel">Israel</a>-<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/hamas">Hamas</a> war. In recent weeks, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-the-university-presidents-shouldve-said-to-congress">elite college presidents</a> have been <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elise-stefaniks-calculated-demagoguery-on-antisemitism-and-free-speech">under fire</a> after their <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hamas-israel-war-obliterated-the-campus-microaggression">widely-panned responses</a> at the recent House Education and the Workforce Committee <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=409777">hearing</a> in Washington.</p>
<p>As a result, some Americans are circulating an unwise—and, in the case of government actors, unconstitutional—idea: Let’s start cracking down on “hate speech.”</p>
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As a result, some Americans are circulating an unwise—and, in the case of government actors, unconstitutional—idea: Let’s start cracking down on “hate speech.”
