Re:EU court rules Holocaust denial not protected speech unde...
by blue_devil on Friday October 04, 2019 @02:28PM
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My point is that what public figures express (in public) should not be conflated with what a random person expresses online, say on Facebook etc. And in practice the two are conflated, and statements by politicians are used to censor the population at large (for example, the case above).
The law you're referring to is - IMO - a violation of freedom of speech.
_Unless_ you're a politician. Because then - in public - you are in your official capacity, so you don't have the same "freedom of speech" in that capacity - your statements carry a different weight (which is why you chose to be a politician supposedly.)
This politician did not tell this to his wife at dinner at home. He made a speech on Remembrance Day in 2010.
>>On Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2010, Pastörs, then a member of the local parliament in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, made a speech in which he claimed the commemorations were “theater” and claimed that “the so-called Holocaust is being used for political and commercial purposes.”
The law you're referring to is - IMO - a violation of freedom of speech.
_Unless_ you're a politician. Because then - in public - you are in your official capacity, so you don't have the same "freedom of speech" in that capacity - your statements carry a different weight (which is why you chose to be a politician supposedly.)
This politician did not tell this to his wife at dinner at home. He made a speech on Remembrance Day in 2010.
>>On Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2010, Pastörs, then a member of the local parliament in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, made a speech in which he claimed the commemorations were “theater” and claimed that “the so-called Holocaust is being used for political and commercial purposes.”