Every so often someone goes on substack to post a thread consisting of nothing but racial or antisemitic slurs, seemingly to prove the point that censorship is necessary. You're right that the powerful conflate hate speech and political speech and they do it on purpose, to get people to support censorship. I am a free speech absolutist, I'd rather put up with the one than give up the other. Like a former professor put it back in the 90s when Larry Flynt was pretending to be a free speech champion, "Porn is the price we pay for free speech, not the reason for it."