You forget that Hitler's ideas were popular at the time - that's why he was elected. Slowly but surely it was the free speech of Jews, their very ability to combat the incoming tyranny before it was to late, was clamped down on.
As such, censorship was quite popular.
Free speech levels the playing field between government and people.
(Quoting: //wiki/Mussolini)
regards from germany (-;
Edited: Typo
I think freedom of the press and freedom of association come before that.
In fact the first thing Mussolini did when he won the election (not without the help of violence, verbal but more importantly physical, like Hitler also did after him) was to abolish the free press and make all the other parties illegal.
2) Verbal 'violence' is a fallacy. It doesn't exist.
Your Address is: $address
Your phone is: #ph
You work at: $employer
You did X abhorrent thing (fakes picture or video with deepfakes). It would be a shame if something happened to you.
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That right there is indeed verbal violence, AND a call to arms to enact violence against you.
Only the incitement to violence could possibly be considered violence, though I personally would say it is NOT violence, but a separate offence.
Believe me, my grangrandfather and my grandfather were jailed many times in the 20 years of fascist regime because they refused to swear as fascists.
They were two gentle men who worked as tailors.
Example: Pasquino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquino
2) I'm a polite Italian using ancient words: it's what we call hate speech today.