Rainer Zitelmann: Investigated in Berlin for a Putin Meme

0:00 – Under criminal investigation for a retweet
1:03 – The Putin–Hitler meme and a letter from Berlin police
3:05 – Section 86a: a Nazi-symbol law turned on libertarians
5:20 – Section 188: insulting politicians is a crime
6:07 – Police raid a pensioner over an insult
7:00 – Chancellor Merz, "Pinocchio," and the chilling effect
8:10 – Government-funded hotlines to report your neighbors
10:16 – How cancel culture became legal repression
11:35 – An American's view of German speech laws
13:23 – Fighting back, and the cost of a lawyer
16:24 – A Hitler historian who can't reference Hitler
18:17 – Speech codes always go one step further
20:47 – Is anyone trying to change these laws?
23:22 – Vance in Munich and free speech as a principle
26:03 – Posting from Germany on X
27:06 – Banned from Facebook for his own book cover
28:56 – The socialism fork meme flagged as "suicide"
30:24 – New Space Capitalism
31:36 – NASA's cost-plus problem and SpaceX's Hail Mary
35:15 – Who can own the Moon and Mars?
38:07 – Why incentives matter in space
40:01 – Would Rainer go to space?
41:55 – Vietnam, Poland, and Venezuela: what free markets do
44:54 – Wrap-up