I live in germany were its illegal to deny or doubt the holocaust. I absolutely agree with you that it's a ridiculous infringements on free speech. If you say something stupid - like the holocaust didn't happen - you should have the right to be made fun of for your stupidity but it shouldn't get you arrested.
Katerwurst, that is exactly what I was thinking! You don’t have to make denial of the earth being round illegal, people will just laugh at you and call you crazy if you go around saying the earth is flat. I just wonder what is behind it in European countries to make denying a fact illegal. The next step may not have happened yet, but what could be the next step? The government making some other speech illegal, like criticism of government officials?
It certainly opens a road in that direction. But censorship is common practice already. Just look at Twitter or Facebook, you can basically get anything removed by claiming it is hatespeech or it offends you. god damn it, there is no right to be not offended by something.