Yep...pretty much the same in the UK.
I’ve followed the narrative around the AfD movement in Germany. The UK activist Tommy Robinson, whom is always labeled as a ‘far right’ racist, even though his English Defense League had the banner “black and white unite”, has been to Germany and marched with them...sees exactly the same media narrative.
They (general EU folks) just don’t seem to stop and think about the question “who decides?” (what is ‘hate speech’) because they still seem to believe the government is honest and represents their ‘best interests’ - i.e. the ‘collective first’ mentality, not the rights of the individual coming first that IS in the best interest of the collective.
Only in the USA does this concept hold true.
It’s odd, if you ask them “do you trust politicians” you’ll get the answer “no”. So what gives? I asked an EU supporter about their representation, that they don’t vote for their MEP - the answer was “no, but we vote for the person that votes for them”. Yet you don’t trust politicians? ...but somehow the MEP is a good representative and not a corrupt bureaucrat? They don’t see to see the disconnect, all while not able to even name their MEP!
Try and keep up fuzzy, people are being charged and jailed for speech deemed unkind already, especially to Hillary. They have been promoting hate speech for years, came right along with hate crimes.