Land of the free, where police raid your home at dawn over mean tweets:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...
Not a one-off, either:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/germans-cant-insult...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...
Not a one-off, either:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/germans-cant-insult...
Freedom doesn't mean that no errors are made but that they are aknowledged as errors.
The responsible politician still gets rediculed for that and isn't praised by his fanbase.
You are not allowed hate speech on the internet in a lot of countries. You will be prosecuted for that.
But different to other countries, in a majority of the european countries (turkey, greece are currently problematic) people are not deported, put in jail or camps and forgotten, even without a sentence and hearing.