You think that the "voters" should decide what is acceptable speech. Just by consensus, "acceptable free speech" can be determined by 60% of the people in the

You think that the "voters" should decide what is acceptable speech. Just by consensus, "acceptable free speech" can be determined by 60% of the people in the society. Merkel's government proved nothing. Certainly not that government-mandated censorship is any more altruistic than regular government censorship. There's a strong fear right now that the EU countries are devolving right back into their old authoritarian ways.