Even if you maintain that occasional abuses of state power are a small price to pay for healthy public discourse, I would ask you to consider the inherent dangers of this precedent. Milton offers the example of the Spanish Inquisition, and how their acts of censorship, although ostensibly intended to purge the world of heresy, soon came to include ‘any subject that was not to their palate’. When it comes to defining what constitutes unacceptable speech, the notion of true objectivity is a mirage.
