Here in Germany "Mein Kampf" is illegal to sell. I was always amazed that it was available in the US (or so I heard). I guess they took "free speech" serious.
I guess the public opinion has changed on that one by now.
Personally I think it is better if such things can be accessed and discussed, so that their arguments can be properly refuted.
(Facebook is a private company and can do what they want, of course).
> Here in Germany "Mein Kampf" is illegal to sell.
It's not that simple. (in short, unedited and uncommented reprints are problematic (but not directly established as "illegal to sell" currently I'd say), pre-1945 printings are fine, commented editions exist and are fine)
Until 2016 all new printings were stopped on copyright grounds by the state of Bavaria. Hitlers registered address at time of death was in Munich, so the state of Bavaria acquired his assets and used that to stop printings (internationally not often successful, and with the exceptions of US and GB, where the rights had been sold to Random House by Hitlers publisher), but 2016 (70 years after death of the author) the copyright expired. Copyright was fairly straight-forward legally, commented editions now are too.
Why go as far as usa when it's readily available at libraries and for sale in many many European countries? Even some versions with comments are legal in Germany itself.
Significant events in US history, such as the Abolitionist movement, women's rights, the Civil Rights era, et cetera, would not have been as easily accomplished without freedom of speech being defined the way it has been in the US.
The fact is, you can't have freedom of speech if your also not allowing people to engage in hateful speech, no matter what most "progressives" would tell you.
I guess the public opinion has changed on that one by now.
Personally I think it is better if such things can be accessed and discussed, so that their arguments can be properly refuted.
(Facebook is a private company and can do what they want, of course).