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Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by sneak on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:22PM (#29475379)
No, you're not allowed to publish gory video games or racist literature[1] in Germany, which is clearly prior restraint. It's not that the US has some crazy absolutist freedom of expression (it does not), it's that Germany simply lacks it.

You can't have "mostly" free expression. It's either abridged or it isn't. Germany censors harmless digital art that the government deems inappropriate for adults to be able to see. It's a classic slippery slope (modern Germans defending their government's censorship and lack of free expression will usually cite Hitler/racist stuff, but that's not all that's banned).

It doesn't really matter what the constitution says, if in practice you don't have those rights. It's sort of like how the 2A in the USA says that the people have the right to keep and bear arms, but I don't suggest attempting to exercise that right in Central Park, because you don't actually have it. Same goes for free expression in Germany.

From https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/19123 :

> Germany is one of the strictest censors of violence among the world’s video game consumers. Due to its history and a cohesive national opinion, the legislature limits content severely, much more severely than the surrounding European nations. This results in international developers choosing not to market to Germany, creating censored titles specifically for the German market, or finding themselves on a list of banned titles illegal to buy or sell.

[1]: there's also no indication that racist publications were responsible for WW2 (versus, say, Hitler himself), making this censorship-for-censorship's sake. Many other countries do not prohibit racist literature and have not committed a holocaust. So, of course, they banned violent video games too, because those don't cause violence either.

Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by GlitchMr on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:50PM (#29475794)
Freedom of speech is not absolute in United States either, see https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re....
Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by cma on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:40PM (#29475658)
> It's sort of like how the 2A in the USA says that the people have the right to keep and bear arms

Why leave out the for the maintenance of a well-regulated militia part?

Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by sneak on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:54PM (#29475857)
Because you asked, even though it's now way off-topic for this thread (and I will not respond further):

Because the text of 2A does not indicate that the right is contingent upon participation in a militia (and indeed 10 USC 246[1] legally defines the US militia as all able-bodied male citizens of ages 17 to 44 inclusive, as well as all female citizens who are members of the National Guard, even if it did), as 2A actually specifies RKBA as a right of the people (not "people of the militia", just "people").

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246

Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by Frondo on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:41PM (#29477937)
Heh, and where was this interpretation when the Black Panthers were arming themselves in California? Even the NRA supported gun control back then.

> In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organization fought alongside the government for stricter gun regulations in the 1960s.

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...

Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by _dain_ on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:09PM (#29478264)
stupid irrelevant gotcha, the nra is not the scotus
Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by cma on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:32AM (#29482388)
From 1930s to 2008 it was read differently. The words also don't say the mentally ill with violent uncontrollable ideations can't have them, but we constitutionally allow the disallowing of that presumably both out of common sense and because forcing allowing that has nothing to do with a well regulated militia.
Re:Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers by sascha_sl on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:50AM (#29484646)
Your information on video games is about a decade out of date, there were no video games put on List A or B for the past 2 years at least, and I haven't checked further. The last high profile ban was Wolfenstein, and that was for it's use of the Swastika.

https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=Indizierungen&...