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November 19th, 2009

Germany’s Nazi Exception: Constitutional Court OKs Curtailing of Free Speech

Germany’s Nazi Exception: Constitutional Court OKs Curtailing of Free Speech: “Germany’s constitution strongly and explicitly protects the freedom of speech. Still, the country’s highest court has now said that — given the injustice and horrors of the Nazi regime — it is constitutional to make an exception that bans speech glorifying Hitler’s ideology.”

(Via SPIEGEL ONLINE – International.)

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