And Germany is, due to their heavy censorship, worse at resisting fascist ideology than anyone with free speech, because you can’t actually have those arguments in public.
The number of things you can’t argue in Germany is tiny. You can’t argue that there was no holocaust but that’s not central to any ideological debate. Censorship is not preventing ideological debates in Germany.
Censorship always prevents debates. The number of things which are explicitly banned from discussion may technically be small, but the chilling effect is huge. And the fact that ideas and symbols are banned is—correctly! - taken as evidence that they can’t be beaten by argument, that people are afraid of the ideas. Also, naturally, the opposite side never has to practice their arguments, so they look like weak debaters because they are.
The number of things you can’t argue in Germany is tiny. You can’t argue that there was no holocaust but that’s not central to any ideological debate. Censorship is not preventing ideological debates in Germany.
Censorship always prevents debates. The number of things which are explicitly banned from discussion may technically be small, but the chilling effect is huge. And the fact that ideas and symbols are banned is—correctly! - taken as evidence that they can’t be beaten by argument, that people are afraid of the ideas. Also, naturally, the opposite side never has to practice their arguments, so they look like weak debaters because they are.