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I don't really understand the relevance of Jimmy Savile here.

I think the point was - if the BBC (closely tied with the political establishment) cared so much about children's safety they would have acted against Saville before they were compelled.

The establishment never acted against Saville in his lifetime. All the public allegations and investigations happened almost a year after his death.

Right. So the UK elite are not to be trusted.

What exactly were we talking about again? OP seemed to be saying "cops and the BBC don't care about child abusers, therefore hate speech isn't a real problem," which...seems to be missing several critical links.

I think they're trying to say that "hate speech" was invented by a hypocritical government to control people and it's not a real concern for regular folks, but that's obviously not true; it was born out of civil rights campaigns in the '50s and (eventually) adopted by governments due to popular demand.

'Please sir, control and regulate the contents of our speech' - smacks of astroturfing to me

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