• Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    This slope is not slippery at all. Denying holocaust has been a crime since 2002 1994 in Germany and yet Germany had no issues with upkeeping free speech in the two three decades since.

    edit: oops it’s actually older than I thought

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      TIL it’s that recent. I know there was at least some anti-Nazi laws from the start.

      The slope gets slippery at some point, though, right? I don’t think it’s a stupid thing to worry about, even if ultimately this is the right choice.

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        The slope gets slippery at some point, though, right? I don’t think it’s a stupid thing to worry about

        Sure. I wouldn’t like to see climate change denialism criminalized in this century and I’d be pretty worried if any government pushed for it - but we’re so so far away from something like that happening. We’re way closer to going backwards in reconciliation.