Disclaimer: all of my beliefs are based on assumptions, and any of the assumptions I am making here could be wrong. This is my perspective on this issue and has been for a while.<p>I look to the beliefs of the people pushing such measures. They believe hate speech is violence. Not that it merely is bad, but that it actually equates to violence. In fact, certain forms of hate speech are not just violence, but genocide. The government could arrest someone for having materials on your device to commit violence in the form of bombs or shootings, why can't they arrest you for hate speech then? How did we treat the Nazis after their genocide? Since they believe that going against the government's beliefs is equal to genocide, will we be treated that way for "wrongthink"? This leads me to believe that it is possible in the future they may even try to kill you under the guise of preventing hate speech. It's happened before in many countries thay believed they were modern, rational, and scientific. Why can't it happen now? Because "we're not in a history book"? I wonder if someday this comment of mine will be used as exhibit A of evidence I "committed genocidal acts of hate speech" and should be shipped off to the gulag or concentration camp.<p>The beliefs of these people are creating a mathematical gradient pushing our society and culture towards punishment, revenge, hatred, and tyranny.. and who knows what the limits are to how far it will go.<p>For those of you inclined to disagree because of how extreme this conclusion sounds, I understand why you would do that, but that heuristic would also have led you astray in the numerous atrocities committed in what people in the 1900s believed were "modern times". The atrocities seemed to have been a product of human nature and our nature certainly hasn't changed in 80-50 years; if anything we have become prideful and don't think we need to watch out for our nature, which I would assume exacerbates our susceptibility to the flaws in our nature.<p>I am very interested to hear the thoughts of those of you who agree and disagree with me.<p>God bless