Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
by philwelch on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:48PM
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> Which system is better only time will tell, but what's happening in the USA right now does not have a parallel in Europe.
Likewise, a lot of what's happened in Europe does not have a parallel in the USA. Elections have been seriously contested and sometimes won by the likes of Golden Dawn, Le Pen--both father and daughter--the BNP, Alessandra Mussolini, Jorg Haider, and so forth. Sure, in Europe you don't have a hundred white nationalists marching down the street carrying swastika flags, but you have an awful lot of them in the European Parliament.
Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
by jacquesm on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:01PM
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> you have an awful lot of them in the European Parliament.
We're working on it. The last batch of elections was pretty scary but so far so good. If WWII wasn't enough to teach the world a lasting lesson you have to wonder how bad it would have to get before we will. Quite possibly it can not be done and we will occasionally revert to type.
Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
by InitialLastName on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:33PM
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The scary thing is that WWII is quickly passing out of living memory. In the next 20 years, there will start to be a critical mass of voters who have never MET anyone who was an adult in WWII.
As for your second point, ideas may be too dangerous to express and you're still free to express them. But that's no reason to hand someone a megaphone to express those ideas and I think that Europe learned that there are points in time where small changes can have large effects, and that some of those effects can get out of control. So they tried (and possibly failed, but so far so good) to put mechanisms in place to stop a re-occurrence of recent history.
Which system is better only time will tell, but what's happening in the USA right now does not have a parallel in Europe.