montana Wrote:The OP:"It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech". It is about topic,not action. Illegal speech today is about certain, "actions" of speech deemed to be illegal.I agree, it is about topic, not action. And there is no such thing as "actions" of speech. There is only speech, and the various categories thereof.
Illegal speech today is (as it always has been) about types of speech deemed to be unjustly harmful either to individuals or to the public at large.