| cAPSLOCK said: **Absolute, unbridged freedom of speech. As they tell you day 1 in civil liberties law: you're either in favor of freedom of speech precisely for the people you find reprehensible (neo nazis, KKK, holocaust deniers, dickheads in general), or you're not in favor of freedom of speech. |
Right. And the communists in hysteric cold war america where given a great deal of freedom - speech, association, you name it. They didn't even actually need to be communists, just look like communists (for some random definition of looking like a communist).
Besides let's not forget that the now mostly historic laws forbidding Nazi hate speech in Germany probably date back to the time it was administered by, you guessed it, the US of A. The fact that some countries in Europe to this day bare the scars of either wars fought on our own soil, and/or not so distant dictatorial regims, doesn't devalue the freedoms we enjoy now, thank you very much.
