I think you are seeing played out in practice why the US is right and Germany is wrong about this. An important argument for free speech is that while it does

I think you are seeing played out in practice why the US is right and Germany is wrong about this. An important argument for free speech is that while it does little harm for people to merely say say bad stuff, restricting it does a lot of harm because of snowball effects. If speech act looks just barely be illegal, then it is much easier and safer to just condemn it than to figure out if it really meets the standard. That is if you dispose of free speech as a principle, then you should expect suppression of even speech you think is tolerable. And if you believe that is pie-in-the-sky theory, then you are seeing evidence to the contrary here.