If someone just insults them with profanity, that's still nothing, you can get by without that, but if a person wrote…

I'm curious, what does an insult even mean? If it's just a swear word, that's nothing, you can do without it, but if someone wrote the truth about a government official, exposing their dishonesty, theft, and bribery, then it smells like protecting officials from public criticism and covering up crimes committed by them!