What I am saying is that the German state has always used this thin veil of censorship to cover up the existing problem of racial hate and discrimination. It hardly ever went any further. As to the problem of free expression vs punishment of verbal barbarism, it’s a dilemma and both sides have a point in saying that either full freedom of expression is indispensable to a free society or control is.
I am personally unable to find a definitive standpoint for myself which, again, is quite untypical for our culture that always pushes us to pick a solution and from then on claim that it’s the right one. More often than not, we’re actually much less sure than we pretend to be, but I tend towards absolute freedom of expression with the exclusion of direct ad hominem and incitation to violence.
Just look at how the neo-nazis use the fat that it’s forbidden to deny the holocaust for their own propaganda means and how that prevents an open discussion which would certainly result in their ideas being publicly crushed under the evidence of nazi crimes and also how they are able to turn the tables on their adversaries by claiming there is no freedom to tell ‘the truth’. The internet has become a vector for this problem and more restrictions, as we are on to now, are not going to be the solution.
