Exactly. In France there is a set of laws that forbids the denial of various genocides, in particular the Holocaust. Unfortunately this backfired badly, as seve

Exactly. In France there is a set of laws that forbids the denial of various genocides, in particular the Holocaust. Unfortunately this backfired badly, as several prominent Holocaust deniers, who are generally despicable nazis over that, got condemned and from then hailed by their hateful followers as "martyrs" and even "martyrs of free speech". One even managed to have Chomsky say something nice about his "oppression" (which is quite ironic given the guy's an antisemite). Since then, antisemitism has risen, and prominent antisemites still fills up theatres, garners millions of views of their videos, always speaking in transparent allusions to keep barely out of the reach of law (Don't say "Jews rule finance worldwide", say "'The organised community' rules the world's finance"). In retrospect, that looks like an utter failure to me.