I’m conflicted on this. On one hand Nazis were fucking shitty people, and Neo-Nazis are shitheads too. On the other hand, freedom of speech/expression is super important. Even for these shitbirds.
Like, I don’t know for sure, doesn’t Australia have freedom of speech and stuff? If the people (even non-Nazis) don’t say anything about this, then is it possible the government will start banning other shit? Like flipping the bird.
But also, yeah, fuck those guys.
We don’t have a properly defined freedom of speech right, although our high court has ruled that we have an implied freedom of “political communication”
https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/freedom-information-opinion-and-expression
Which truly doesn’t matter as we are a part of the various treaties and international frameworks mentioned on that site. Treaty law is just as valid as domestic law and as long as that is held we have a right to freedom of speech with the minor caveats of not allowing racist scum to speak freely.
