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Hate speech in the United States
In a Supreme Court case on the issue, Matal v. Tam (2017), the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no “hate speech” exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the U.S. government may not discriminate against speech on the basis of the speaker’s viewpoint.
It’s not a crime on its own in the US, but if it incites imminent lawless action that can be a crime.
Or they try to refill prescriptions that aren’t supposed to be. I got a call from them saying they had contacted my doctor and she wouldn’t let them refill my short term antibiotics, so I should call and fix that so they can give me more that I don’t need.