What a wonderfully nuanced article that makes the case for both sides of the debate. The right to freedom of speech shouldn’t be used to defend hate speech, but likewise, the insistence that anything even slightly offensive is hate speech is suppression of freedom of speech by the back door. Social media has got itself into a complete mess over this — and one of the reasons why I’ve come off Twitter/Facebook/Instagram. The polarisation of people to extremes of left and right is leaving very few people in the centre ground occupying a nuanced and sensible position. People like you. Please write more :o)