Germany has certain very strict policies about whether you're allowed to discuss certain things, and they outrank the US by 30 positions on the World Press Freedom Index[1]. Sometimes you have to suppress bad actors who willfully push unverified or outright fallacious information in order to have actual freedom of information.

[1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table

Let us not use Germany as an example of a place that justifies regulating speech. That particular quirk of German jurisprudence has so much baggage behind it, it really isn't worth bringing to the conversation.

Suppressing criticism of the government should always be considered unacceptable. Doing so trivially allows some nasty social pathologies.