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Originally Posted by Marhkimov

It didn't have to be sentenced at the Nuremberg trials. It's already outlawed in over half the world.

And Nazis disappeared in over half the world because of it, as Nazis are a direct consequence of freedom of symbolism.

It's true, Hitler's flag was banned, but the flag itself doesn't mean anything, it can't, a flag doesn't think, thus, it can't follow an ideology, Hitler's flag in the hands of a neo-nazi means hate, anti-semitism, totalitarism and etc., but this same flag, if taken away from the hands of this neo-nazi and dropped on a calm street, left to rot at the side-walk, being stepped on by the occasional pedestrian, the meaning this flag once had in the hands of a nazi disappears, it becomes nothing but a piece of junk, though depending on the fabric I think it could be nicely used to mop the floor, then, as a cleaning rag, the flag gains an entirely different meaning, it is now an agent of good, it helps sweep the dirt away and keep the floor clean.

When I watch a documentary or a movie about WW2 or when I look for pictures or when I play a WW2 game I expect to run into Hitler's flag, just like I expect to run into every other historically accurate flag, in this historical context the flag is nothing but a shadow of the past, I don't think documentarists, movie directors and game developers are Nazis when they over-use/over-display the Nazi flag, if it's a movie about Hitler and he is followed everywhere I expect to run into alot of flags at the HQ's and official buildings.

So I don't think this guy is using the Nazi flag to glorify Nazism, but even if he was and even if it was possible to make every single Nazi Germany flag to disappear, they would come up with a new symbol, like I mentioned earlier, you can ban the symbol but that doesn't get rid of the Nazi and the Nazi is the thinking agent (and not the flag) so he will create a new flag, a new symbol, like this Mexican Nazi Party flag:


It's the Nazis that need to be contained, their flags are irrelevant, they wouldn't hesitate doing the holocaust all over again, whatever flag they use, so if anyone is willing to remove Nazi flags from SH3 websites, I would expect the same determination in eliminating these real, non-virtual, Nazis too.