The ironic part is they are more authoritarian than the US. I bring up Austria because I am a bit more familiar with it and it has many of the same laws and you can see a tendency to further restrict speech.
I also don't understand how you keep talking about their restrictions of free speech as a positive when we know there was a recent resurgence of right wing parties throughout Europe. In Germany there are some concerns about the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party which has representation in most German states right now. Austria has not become an evil empire but lets not forget about the Austrian presidential election last year where the right wing candidate, Norbert Hofer, won the first round and, although ultimately losing, won 46% of the votes in the run off. Hofer is part of the FPO, a right wing Austrian political party which was founded by a Nazi. A literal Nazi that served in politics under Hitler. Over its history it has praised Nazi policies, welcomed war criminals and other such things yet it is one of the main political parties in Austria. So I do not find your points convincing in the slightest.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
The ironic part is they are more authoritarian than the US. I bring up Austria because I am a bit more familiar with it and it has many of the same laws and you can see a tendency to further restrict speech.
I also don't understand how you keep talking about their restrictions of free speech as a positive when we know there was a recent resurgence of right wing parties throughout Europe. In Germany there are some concerns about the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party which has representation in most German states right now. Austria has not become an evil empire but lets not forget about the Austrian presidential election last year where the right wing candidate, Norbert Hofer, won the first round and, although ultimately losing, won 46% of the votes in the run off. Hofer is part of the FPO, a right wing Austrian political party which was founded by a Nazi. A literal Nazi that served in politics under Hitler. Over its history it has praised Nazi policies, welcomed war criminals and other such things yet it is one of the main political parties in Austria. So I do not find your points convincing in the slightest.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~