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by CjHuber 296 days ago
At least in Germany there is definitely a „free speech problem“. There are several crimes such as „Volksverhetzung“ (agitation of the people) that do serve a legitimate purpose but which are very vaguely defined. Also, trying to ban a party like the AfD, which is the second largest in Germany, for things that are not illegal to say (I‘m not judging their politics here, I‘m just saying the assessment has been leaked and there are no illegal things in there) doesn’t exactly scream free speech
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The weird thing about the whole AfD issue is that the other parties don’t realise that censoring and excluding AfD will likely make it stronger. Strange they didn’t consider that outcome.