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Originally Posted by OneHungLo
So if you're in Germany and you post a swastika online you get arrested? I guess there's no freedom of speech there.
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No, the context is important. And it's not about freedom of speech, it's about disrespect of the history YOU will never understand how it is. The german people decide to ban the political use of this symbol - and still 99% of the people do not want see it without an education or art (like movies) context. It's like guns in public hands, people don't want it so it's forbidden.
And over the time things can change, ie a few years ago the swastika was not allowed in video games and needed to replaced by a different symbol. It changed cause the people today think a little bit different than the people 50 years ago. Now the most people think it's stupid, so it was changed. That's how democracy works.
I hope ur not american, cause it's always funny to hear people from a country where u not even allowed to drink a beer in public talking about freedom. Or we can talk about rights when u get into a police control, from our point of view US citizen are threaten like slaves when an officer is around, ready to lick their shoes if they want to. In many points of "freedom", europe is far ahead the US, and nearly every American that move here is confirming that.