TUTORS: Should you be struggling in your chosen subject and need specialised tutoring then click the following link for professional assistance: Affiliate Program: Online IB Private Tutoring Service https://www.plusplustutors.com?promocode=3535311 Sebastien Bishop, Should we hate hate speech regulation? The argument from viewpoint discrimination, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2024;, pqae086, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae086 Abstract According to philosophers like James Weinstein, our democratic values give us a compelling reason to tolerate hate speech. In fact, they argue that even if hate speech causes significant harms, our democratic values nonetheless sometimes call for a hands-off approach. In particular, they evoke the democratic value of citizens being free to criticize and voice dissent towards the laws that bind them. This paper seeks to establish two key points. First, that upon closer examination, the kind of arguments that Weinstein presents against hate speech regulation is less than convincing. Secondly, that by building on Weinstein's discussion of the concept of viewpoint discrimination, we can construct a more convincing objection to hate speech regulation. That said, this more convincing objection falls short of calling for the abolition of all hate speech regulation, instead highlighting the need for transparency and consistency in the way governments regulate harmful speech. #Hatespeech, #democracy, #viewpointdiscrimination, #JamesWeinstein, #Trump #freespeech #prejudice #openaccess Timestamps 00:00 - Hate Speech 00:12 - Abstract 12:04 - I. Political participation 17:42 - II. The problem 23:47 - III. The more promising readingβviewpoint discrimination 35:24 - IV. Analogies 41:30 - V. A new viewpoint discrimination objection 49:58 - VI. Conclusion Β© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://academic.oup.com/pq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pq/pqae086/7720702 TUTORS: Should you be struggling in your chosen subject and need specialised tutoring then click the following link for professional assistance: Affiliate Program: Online IB Private Tutoring Service https://www.plusplustutors.com?promocode=3535311