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Originally Posted by TrueBlueAmerican
In a sense, a country that bans Holocaust denial and political parties associated with Holocaust denial cannot be considered a true/full democracy because laws like that bar certain subsects of said countries legal voting population from representation or an attempt for representation in their government. In the Unites States the Nazi Party USA can run a candidate in elections; a testement to how our system still protects basic voting rights and rights of political association at the expense of having a Fascist party in the race.
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This board is not run or supported by the US or any state government. It is privately owned and operated. While there is very good reason why we do not want our government involved in censoring speech, even loathsome speech, these considerations really don't apply to what one would allow in one's non-governmental living room.
Consequently, and assuming for the sake of argument that the First Amendment insulates from governmental interference the right of Nazis and their ilk to deny the deaths of millions of men, women and children, as a part of conscientiously applied program of diminishing the status and legal rights of Israeli Jews today, there is nothing that prevents the private folks here from shoving the words of Hitler and co directly back up their arses - from whence they originally dumped out.