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If the people had been free to insult Hitler and other politicians without being fined, jailed, or shot, maybe the Germans wouldn’t have started a world war.

As for today’s snowflakes:

“If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.”

“Politics ain’t beanbag.”

However, I could go along with making people remove fake “quotes” if they are presented as real, IOW not in a clearly identifiable satirical site or post or meme.

OTOH, politicians should be able to present the facts and argue their own case without hand-holding.

And huxley is correct, in more cases than just Germany.
“I suspect it’s more fun and safer for the police to monitor mean tweets than to go out and solve real crimes and arrest bad people.”

In re Neo’s last link, one of the persons quoted insisted there was no surveillance; then how are they finding all that hate speech?

Allan Sherman knew what a fink was. Allan Sherman: Rat Fink

The song came from Rag Mop, recorded and composed in the ’40s by Johnnie Lee Wills—better known as the younger brother of Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing.Rag Mop – Johnnie Lee Wills (1949).

Of course the pejorative meaning of fink I recall as a kid was that it meant to rat someone out or be someone who did so.

In which case Dr. Matthäus Fink, a state prosecutor tasked with policing Germany’s robust hate speech laws, is well-named.

If someone called Fink a fink, would it be hate speech?