1) if you country criminalizes "hate speech", it doesn't have free speech, this isn't up for the debate - you're literally jailing dissidents for disagreeing with the tyrannical rulers. If you want to Own the US and Vance on this issue, bring up those laws against anti-Semitism that keep popping up in different Republican states.
2) Freedom of Speech and Press Freedom are two different things - Journalists are Enemies of the People, and do more than anyone else to persecute normal people for speaking their mind and even telling jokes. If Trump had every single left-wing journalist jailed, tortured and executed, the average American would become freer to speak up without fear of Cancellation.
