Comment by bitcurious
6 days ago
>We know, we had the Nazis.
Yes, I keep thinking about the bastion of free speech that gave birth to the Nazi movement. If only the Weimar Republic had anti-hate speech laws, perhaps the Shoah could have been avoided? Oops, turns out it did have those laws, and those very laws were subverted to suppress dissent.
I think tourer was arguing that the Nazis were a template for how to use speech restrictions to maintain power.