Swastikas and Germany in the modern day...

[areo16]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

I don't miss the Swastika one bit. If you get a little deeper into what happened during the Nazi time it's in my opinion right to not let some modern idiots walk around with a Nazi flag which would be mocking all the people who suffered under the Swastika (the crimes even outside the Holocaust are mind blowing).

Freedom of speech is important but if this freedom is used to propagate terror and crime of that scale then it's IMHO ok to ban it for that subject. I'm aware that this is a very fine line that borders censorship but for the overall situation here I think it's acceptable in that case.

It seems you live in Germany. So, you are in favor of a limited freedom of speech. Which wouldn't be freedom of speech, because it is controls in some shape or form. It would be "limited freedom of speech", which isn't "freedom of speech" in the general sense of the words. It seems you feel freedom of speech should take the bench to the propagation of terror.

In most places propogation of terror is illegal anyhow. This could be considered a threat, which is a crime here in the states. So why limit the freedom of speech if the propagation of terror and the acts the Nazis did are illegal anyhow? What about the display of the swastika for educational purposes, or peaceful purposes? I realize this might be hard to grasps considering that the incidents occurred just 60 years ago. But you do think that Freedom of speech does have its limits.