Originally Posted by Jenny S.

I think there is nothing wrong with free speech. In a normal country it doesn't matter if 3000 wackos deny the holocaust, as long as there are 300 million normal ones.

Suppression of free speech often seems to cause the exact opposite of what's intented. In the country where fascism was shunned most, namely in former East Germany, the nazis gained ground big time after the wall came down and the communist regime fell.