No? We've never had such an absolutist view on the freedom of speech as American Constitution holds. We still have enough of it to keep the political debate open to all points of view though (with a reservation for the paradox of tolerance)

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tick_tock_tick 2 days ago | parent [-]

> We still have enough of it to keep the political debate open to all points of view though (with a reservation for the paradox of tolerance)

If you're going to reference Popper go read his work he'd spit in your face for suggesting your current censorship and jailing of citizen is in anyway to fix his "paradox of tolerance".

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oytis 2 days ago | parent [-]

Noone is being jailed for speech in EU, you are misinformed by your antidemocratic elites. Incarceration rate in Germany is almost 10 times lower than in the US, and prison time is used for really severe cases, not for being mean on Twitter

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immibis 2 days ago | parent [-]

People are being arrested in Berlin for saying "Palestine will be free"

	▲	oytis 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		OK, sure, antisemitism is a different topic, and Germany might have a bit of an overreaching definition of it. Which IMO is understandable given German history, but I agree that this is one topic where Germany's freedom of speech is endangered. It's not something Vance would complain about I guess though.