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Germany does fine not allowing for nazi ideology to be espoused. Commoditizing the spread of bad ideas is not, in fact, a public good.


The U.S. isn't Germany. The U.S. has a first amendment.


Which deals specifically with preventing the government from censoring your speech. You are not obligated to use YouTube, nor is YouTube obligated to host your speech.


Germany isn't the U.S. Germany has a 5th article[1].

Germany acknowledges that there are human rights (plural), that they occassionally conflict and that there are tradeoffs that must be made to achieve some balance and maintain all human rights in some reasonable form.

[1]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...


Thank goodness for that. If not, YouTube might be forced to publish extremist content that they find to be harmful.


Please cite your source.

> According to the annual report of Germany's interior intelligence service (Verfassungsschutz) for 2012, at the time there were 26,000 right-wing extremists living in Germany, including 6,000 neo-Nazis.

> The National Socialist Movement (NSM), with about 400 members in 32 states,[195] is currently the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States.

It seems the right to free speech and the right to association has led to FEWER Neo Nazis in America than Germany despite America's population being 4 times larger than Germany's.


The "Unite the Right" rally held in Charlottesville, the rally in which Heather Heyer was killed by a white supremacist, had ~20-40 attendees.

There were several thousand counter-protestors.

This is a Neo-Nazi rally in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ZPs48rKhw

Please describe, in your own words, how the restriction of free speech and association has curtailed the organization of Neo-Nazi movements.




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