the right to offend is the heart of free speech

Censorship by governments and by private citizens has always about what offends the powerful, whether the powerful are princes, priests, or mobs. In internet slang, censorship is all about the hurt fee fees.

Today, liberal censors defend "hate speech" laws and speech codes, even though there's no evidence that they're more than a feel-good solution for complex problems, and there are many examples of them backfiring horribly.

But don't take this from me. A few better thinkers:

"The idea that any...