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I don't think anyone in this thread was involved in the construction of the German constitution. People are allowed to have opinions in opposition to that of t

• Barrin92 6y ago
  >People are allowed to have opinions in opposition to that of the sitting government, including ones that sat well before we were even born. Yes, but they need to justify them. Disregarding tradition goes both ways. You can't brush off the German conception of the law and then just go "well that's censorship bro", which is honestly 90% of the discourse on HN on these issues. The notion of a 'concordance of legal values' is highly intuitive. There's a very strong case to be made that laws are not sacred, that they serve the public good, and thus ought to be balanced. It's the free speech absolutism that is purely an artefact of American culture, practised virtually nowhere else to this degree.