FWIW, in Germany you don’t have the right to free speech, you have the right to your own opinion, but it can be regulated what/how you share that in public.
This is mostly also true in the US but they have a wonderful fairytale about free speech being protected at all costs to confuse people. You can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater, you can’t knowingly defame people, you can’t post you opinion on publicly traded companies without disclosing if you hold stocks in them, you can’t show your nipples in many public spaces. It is not as regulated as Germany, but it is regulated some.
Not sure why that’s relevant, because the issue here isn’t “free speech” per se, it’s “Germany is arresting people because it thinks they might be anti-genocide”.
Which is a really bad look, especially for Germany, given its history.
FWIW, in Germany you don’t have the right to free speech, you have the right to your own opinion, but it can be regulated what/how you share that in public.
This is mostly also true in the US but they have a wonderful fairytale about free speech being protected at all costs to confuse people. You can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater, you can’t knowingly defame people, you can’t post you opinion on publicly traded companies without disclosing if you hold stocks in them, you can’t show your nipples in many public spaces. It is not as regulated as Germany, but it is regulated some.
Not sure why that’s relevant, because the issue here isn’t “free speech” per se, it’s “Germany is arresting people because it thinks they might be anti-genocide”.
Which is a really bad look, especially for Germany, given its history.
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