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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by mikejb on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:50AM (#15098037)
I'm not fully following on what your point is; My post was primarily intended to be informative of political actions on the other side of extremism.

Also, banning a political party is quite a big hammer, regardless of how important the party itself is.

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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by dtornabene on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:36PM (#15101991)
Do you have any awareness about the laws governing the history of violent extremism in Germany? Theres a reason right wing and far right wing parties face legal scrutiny.
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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by mikejb on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:23AM (#15109583)
Technically speaking, there's no law governing any history; There's laws governing behavior in the present that arose from events in history. I live in Germany for 12 years by now; I can't claim a lawyer-level knowledge of e.g. §130 StGB, but I have a basic understanding.

What I'm having trouble following is the logic of "the violent extremism on the other side is less bad, because it hasn't led to similarly horrible effects yet".

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