‘The View’ co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin rolls eyes at Joy Behar during free speech fight

Colleagues from “Pogled” fought over the limits of freedom of speech in a tense battle on Wednesday’s show.

ABC’s daytime talk show discussed Meta’s decision on Tuesday to discontinue your fact-checking program in what many saw as a “victory” for free speech.

Some on the panel, however, were concerned whether it would lead to more “hate speech” on social media, which Sunny Hostin argued was another matter.

“There’s a difference between free speech and hate speech,” Hostin said. “We know that. Freedom of speech, I welcome it, I think everyone welcomes it. It’s your constitutional right. When you start getting into hate speech, which happens on all social networks, there’s a problem with that, when you start getting into disinformation and misinformation, there’s problem.”

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Co-hosted by Alyssa Farah Griffinwho previously worked for the first Trump administration, chimed in: “Of course there’s pressure because Trump is coming into office, but I think there’s a cultural and societal desire to be able to talk about things openly.”

She added that “liberals used to be the ones who were in favor of free speech. The famous saying goes: ‘I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it’.”

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg cut him off: “I will not defend to the death your right to call me . . .”

Griffin pushed back, complaining that she couldn’t “finish a sentence” while Hostin had to talk for “20 minutes,” prompting Goldberg to warn her to “be good.”

“Okay, I’m trying to point out that hate speech, something that incites violence, is not legally protected under the First Amendment,” Griffin continued. “My ability to say that a housewife is a household item, I can say that, may offend you. I don’t agree with that, but you absolutely, under the First Amendment, have a right to say that, and the fact that we monitor speech because it makes people uncomfortable or they doesn’t like or offends them…”

“If someone decides, as they often do on these social networks, to call me…” Goldberg cut him off again, using profanity.

She later claimed: “There are certain things we all agree on, boy, you shouldn’t be saying that. It’s not limiting your freedom of speech, it’s asking [somebody] respect the fact that people don’t want to hear that word when it’s about them.”

Later in the segment, co-host Joy Behar claims that hate speech is mostly pushed by the “majority” to the “minority.”

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“They were all pizza guys. As a kid, I found that offensive, so I understand, I have empathy for people who don’t like it when you make fun of their group in a nasty way,” Behar said. “People who do this are not from minority groups, they are from majority groups.”

Griffin fired back, insisting that “every person at the table gets hate speech directed at them.”

“I guess no one here can finish a sentence anymore. Okay,” Behar remarked as Griffin rolled her eyes.

Griffin called out the panel for “everybody acting like we’re all for free speech when it comes to things we love,” which Goldberg insisted was “not true.”

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At the end of the panel, Griffin criticized Hostin for suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump’s 2016 primary had influenced increase in hate speech.

“There’s never been a social media platform where you can’t call people out,” Griffin said. “It’s not because Donald Trump got elected that you can now call people out on social media, that’s just not true.”