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by myrmidon 45 days ago
I'm not saying that you can't protest in Germany, just that european free speech/defamation protection tends to lean a bit more against defamation.

You call that a crazy outlier, but under the previous administration some retiree had police knock on his door and confiscate his tablet (!) because he posted a meme calling a member of the green party an "idiot" (Schwachkopf).

Meanwhile, all the counterexamples that people bring up here are strictly tied to the Trump administration.