08-10-2025, 06:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2025, 06:33 PM by HaughtyFrank.)
What kind of annoys me is that these countries still think they're a bastion of free speech. Just recently I saw a German politician make the argument "That people who complain about a lack of free speech are just upset that they're being criticized for their opinions" something that's just patently untrue when you have people sitting court because they made light of the attempted Trump's assassination.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/german-satirist-el-hotzo-acquitted-over-trump-attempted-assassination-comments/
He basically imported the argument from US free speech debates without understanding that at this point the UK and Germany have very different understandings of free speech than the US.
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