It's not difficult to understand the difference between the two for well informed and stable minds.No doubt there is hateful speech based on bigotry and such.
But cries of "hate speech" has also become a tool for authoritarians and totalitarians.
I suggest better education in schools teaching kids critical thinking skills. And mental healthcare access so people of all ages get life management advice. Both bullies and the bullied will find ways to behave with better options.How would you propose dealing with such speech? To me censorship marks the beginning of the end of freedom.
Much of the censorship I support is for users who are children. Kids need to be monitored in all areas of social life to make sure there aren't behavioral problems and harm. Censorship is often a matter of business models. Even parler could not avoid censorship even though they advertized themselves as no censorship. The hate speech is too much a temptation for disturbed users.
And the end of freedom coming from censorship? No. It comes to too many people abusing the freedom their society has given them. It's like a credit card, if you abuse it, you lose it. The same applies for other areas of life. If you act up on an airplane, you get banned from flying. If you commit crimes, you get arrested and tried.
There's no ideal and absolute freedoms or rights. They are all conditional.
Holding more abusers accountable will hopefully become a lesson.I would agree that free speech is no guarantee of a platform. And the internet does provide a way for haters to join forces, sad but true.