Today we're talking about free speech in Germany. And apparently, from what I've seen in movies, they have free speech as long as they sound angry as hell.
It doesn't matter what their saying.
ICH LIEBEN JULIA ROBERTS!!!!
A war cry to Julia Roberts? No. In German that means I love Julia Roberts. Said no one ever.
But I digress.
Censorship in Germany is the strictest in the European Union, and the Government can censor anything from video games to the internet. Also, membership to the Nazi Party in Germany is illegal, but there's a little history there.
According to the laws of Germany, free speech is allowed, but there are limitations when concerned with defamation, and endangerment of young people. The Government also has control of motion pictures, slander and libel are illegal, and publications violating law can be censored or the author(s) can be penalized.
Most of these laws are rarely used though, and the biggest censorship of free speech in Germany is pertaining to Nazi Party and holocaust-denial. (How do you deny 11 million people dead?)
USA has limitations in freedom of speech: slander, libel, plagiarism, and making an individual feel his life is in immediate danger. You can, however, be a Nazi in the US.
U.S.A! U.S.A!
Information is found here.
This comment comes to you in three parts:
ReplyDelete1) It's always interesting to see how other countries compare to America when it comes to just about everything.
2) Germany definitely does give off the whole libertine vibe, just look at Mozart's "Leck mich im Arsch". I wrote a research paper about that one.
3) I counter your statement that Julia Roberts looks like a horse because SARAH JESSICA PARKER.
1) Other countries can't compare to America in anything. 'Murica
ReplyDelete2) (Interesting title when translated) and Germany, I feel, is still on a nationwide recovery from World War 2 in the sense that they are trying to put it behind them, and a hence a larger portion than you would expect of Germany are holocaust deniers.
3) That's not fair. We're talking about people that look like horses. Obviously a horse looks like a horse.