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Does anywhere have completely free speech? The U.S. has a whole host of limitations on it[0], despite it being protected by the First Amendment, as does every c

• int_19h 7y ago
  Completely free, no. But there are substantial differences. The limitations in US are far less than any other developed country, particularly when you account for the process (e.g. standard of scrutiny necessary to overcome 1A protection in court). This is especially true when it comes to political speech, which is considered to be the prime target for 1A protection. In Germany, whole categories of political speech are explicitly censored, and I'm not even talking about stuff like Holocaust denial. For example, a party can be banned for having a platform that contradicts "liberal democratic basic order". And even informal networks of people can be categorized as "associations" and banned in this manner.