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It's funny that your first example for Germany's lack free speech is a case that was dropped after public outcry which and ultimately lead to the abolishment of
by skrause 6y ago
It's funny that your first example for Germany's lack free speech is a case that was dropped after public outcry which and ultimately lead to the abolishment of an outdated 19th century penal code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair
- Hitton 6y agoI think that need of public outcry to stop such ludicrous infringement of freedom of expression is enough to show where Germany stands.
- carstenhag 6y agoWow, not sure where to begin. Of course it was legal. Of course it is protected by "freedom of speech" or in this case more likely by "freedom of art". But then Erdogan's lawyers found out there's an old German law about insulting other countries' state heads. To make it clear: Insulting is not freedom of speach in Germany. So it does make sense that it had to be checked whether it was an insult of a state head or not. It ended with removing that law because it's stupid.