>>The rationale [Google] gave is that hate speech appears on these apps
>The only way they can define and enforce "hate speech" policies is by torturing the language, the definitions, and hoping no one looks closely at the resulting policies
The rest of your comment is about the first amendment to the US constitution, which constrains governments (US Federal and state governments), not private parties such as Google.
Google would be well within its rights in the US to ban all hate speech from all the platforms it owns.
>The only way they can define and enforce "hate speech" policies is by torturing the language, the definitions, and hoping no one looks closely at the resulting policies
The rest of your comment is about the first amendment to the US constitution, which constrains governments (US Federal and state governments), not private parties such as Google.
Google would be well within its rights in the US to ban all hate speech from all the platforms it owns.