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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by klez on Sunday April 28, 2019 @10:39AM (#19771330)
> Germany has outlawed Nazis since the end of WW2 and guess what... they haven't taken over again

Counter to that, Italy has a provision in its Constitution that forbids the reconstitution of the fascist party and now we have at least two that declare themselves as such (and have a few seats in the parliament), and one that, despite not being explicitly fascist, has more or less similar ideals and methods, has the relative majority of consensus in the country and is governing right now.

EDIT: did I write something false, inflammatory or off topic?

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by 8note on Sunday April 28, 2019 @07:48PM (#19774640)
so, when you claim to deplatform something, then let let them on anyways, you're not doing well?

is that a counter point, or just an example of Italy's government being impotent? if it were china, the members of those parties would all be dead already

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Re:Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits wor... by untog on Sunday April 28, 2019 @06:50PM (#19774265)
Right. My point was that the OP implied a correlation between censorship and the rise of politics bring censored, my answer was that there isn't really any correlation, there are plenty of examples that go both ways.
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