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> The democratic process can only work if citizens are fully informed on the issues, which is precisely what censorship prevents.

Ah yes, if only citizens could speak that the Holocaust didn't happens and could call black people monkeys, then they would ve fully informed to do Democracy.

> Imagine for a moment what happens that your democratic society decides that advocating against hate speech laws is itself hate speech.

This is some outlandish claim, that would need some serious argument to support how it might come to pass.

A proper democracy with functioning institutions has a lot of checks and balances to avoid outlandish bullshit to become law.