German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account

Re:German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire ac... by drb91 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:00PM (#16065670)

This is crap and a lazy claim. In the US, for instance, fascist tactics from democrats appear to originate from neo-liberals (Clinton, Obama) rather than leftists (Warren, Sanders, Stein).

If you squint, you can see that capitalism and regulatory capture have always been core to fascism. Neither are leftist values at all.

If you're obliquely referring to, err, recent "PC" culture, that seems to share a lot more with puritan culture than a form of government.

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Re:German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire ac... by MikkoFinell on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:53AM (#16076840)

What about the trend of shutting down or outright physically attacking speakers at collage campuses lately? I'd call that using violence to suppress politically opposing opinions, and it's something that you will exclusively see leftist do against speakers they disagree with. Or concepts such as the Progressive Stack, where people are discriminated against based on race and gender, in other words literally racism. Or any of the other crazy ideas coming out of social justice these days.

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Re:German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire ac... by drb91 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:48PM (#16075836)

Note, i do realize Stein is not a democrat, but leftist she is.

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