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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ceejayoz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:13PM (#23715456)
Germany doesn't seem to have significant difficulty banning Nazi symbols and propaganda without accidentally banning, say, depictions of unicorns.

Slippery slopes have varying levels of steepness.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:21PM (#23715598)
I believe the parent poster is referring to the extremely recent reforms going on in Germany, which are above and beyond their historic control of Nazi symbols:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/19/germany-tightens-online-ha...

I don't have an opinion on this as it's way too fresh to have observed the effects of it and render a judgment; just here to provide context.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ceejayoz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:29PM (#23715722)
That sounds like they're just setting up a mandatory reporter scenario, akin to how certain private entities are obligated to report child abuse in the USA.
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