American perspective on what is happening in Europe.
“The European Commission has been pushing a proposal to require that all European Union states make hate speech a crime. And in 2024, the European Parliament urged the European Commission to adopt an open-ended approach to the sorts of discrimination that are banned, rather than a closed list, so that authorities “can adapt to changing social dynamics.”Criminalizing more and more expansive conceptions of hate speech and applying them to more and more classes of Europeans doesn’t just infringe on individual rights. It risks a number of social ills, including beyond Europe.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/europe-free-speech-republicans/683915/