“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin makes eye contact with Joy Behar during the freedom fight

The co-stars of “The View” fought for the limits on freedom of speech in a tense fight on Wednesday’s show.

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

Some on the panel, however, worried whether this could lead to more “hate speech” on social media, which Sunny Hostin said was a different issue.

“There is a difference between free speech and hate speech,” Hostin said. “We know that. Free speech, I welcome it, I think everyone welcomes it. It is your constitutional right. When you start to delve into hate speech, which is what happens in all social media, there is a problem with this, when you start delving into hate speech and disinformation, there is a problem with it.”

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin of “The View” defended the right to offensive speech. (Screenshot/ABC News)

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Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffinwho previously worked for the first Trump administration, interjected, “Of course, there is pressure because Trump came into office, but I think there is a cultural and societal desire to be able to talk about things openly.”

He added that “liberals used to be the ones who were pro-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 interrupted, “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 speak “for 20 minutes,” prompting Goldberg to warn her to “be gentle.”

“Okay, I’m trying to make the point that hate speech, anything that incites violence, is never legally protected under the First Amendment,” Griffin continued. “My ability to say that a housewife is an object of the house, I can say that, may offend you. I do not agree with it, but absolutely, under the First Amendment, you have the right to say, and the fact that we watch speech because it makes people uncomfortable or they don’t like it or it offends them…”

“If someone decides, as they often do in these social media places, to call me a…” Goldberg interrupted again, using profanity.

Griffin also shared with Whoopi Goldberg about not being able to finish his thoughts. (ABC/The View/Screenshot)

He later argued: “There are some things we all agree on, kid, you shouldn’t say that. This is not curbing your freedom of speech, it’s asking (someone) to respect the fact that people don’t he doesn’t want to hear that word when he has to do with them.”

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

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“Everyone was a pizzaiolo. As a child I felt that it was offensive to me, so, I understand, I have empathy for people who do not like it when you make fun of their group in an ugly way,” Behar . he said. “The people who do this are not from minority groups, they are from majority groups.”

Griffin pushed back, insisting that “every person at the table is getting hate speech directed at them.”

Alyssa Farah Griffin and Joy Behar got into a tense exchange about free speech and hate speech. (Photo by Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images | Photo by Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

“I don’t think anyone can finish a sentence here anymore. It’s okay,” Behar remarked as Griffin rolled his eyes.

Griffin called out the panel because “we all act like we’re for free speech when it’s the things we like,” 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 first election in 2016 influenced a growing in hate speech.

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