robomatic, is shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater constitutionally protected speech? Is it protected speech if you have a website with the photo and home address of someone you don't like, along with lots of verbiage about how protecting freedom/religion/racial purity means that person has to die? Is that different than a crime lord "suggesting" to one of his minions that life would be better if so-and-so wasn't around any more? What about burning a cross in front of someone's house? What about making threats to kill someone? If you don't actually follow through on that threat, is it just free speech?

Thought control is thought control.
I agree, but that wasn't the question. These laws are being proposed because certain types of hate speech are known to actually incite violence. I'm not saying I agree with these laws, but I can see why folks would want them in place. Do you have a different plan to prevent impressionable people from being incited to violence by hate mongers?