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>why did Hitler appear in the first place? Because they didn't have laws against hate speech, of course. Oh wait... they did: https://www.jta.org/2020/09/03/

• throwaway2048 6y ago
  However the Weimar Republic was extremely politically weak and refused to enforce them.
  • Moway 6y ago
    From the link: >There were dozens of prosecutions, including successful prosecutions, against Nazis — including Julius Streicher, the publisher of Der Sturmer. And it just became a propaganda platform for the Nazis. It got all kinds of attention they otherwise would not have received, and sympathy they otherwise would not have received.
    • throwaway2048 6y ago
      Against minor players, with little public support, they were fearful of doing anything against Hitler or people like Ernst Röhm.
• veddox 6y ago
  You‘re kinda misrepresenting the article. The author/interviewee is not for unlimited speech, she just argues that it should be private organisations doing the censoring rather than the government. (Which quite frankly, I find even scarier - Facebook can‘t be voted out of power within the next four years.)