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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by pgeorgi on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:13AM (#23789586)
> Conservative internet-printers

By association Otto Schily wasn't a conservative and yet...

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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by anoncake on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:37AM (#23809595)
That there are other authoritarians doesn't make the CDU/CSU less authoritarian.
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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by mschuster91 on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:01AM (#23790216)
Otto Schily exited office in 2005, fifteen years ago. While he is a law-and-order hardliner himself, he's not relevant for any recent discussions. Since then the office was filled by hardline authoritarians (Schäuble, Maiziere, HP Friedrich, Maiziere, Seehofer).
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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by pgeorgi on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#23792828)
But if Schily is any indication (and why not?) it doesn't help to have a different party fill that position. Just like it took Nixon to go to China (because he wasn't at risk of being mistaken for a friend of communism) other partys can't afford to look much "weaker" than the current folks - and then have _anything_ go wrong.
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Re:New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service t... by mschuster91 on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:20PM (#23793863)
> But if Schily is any indication (and why not?) it doesn't help to have a different party fill that position.

I agree on that one. There aren't many progressives in interior politics aside from Left and Greens, the rest is all authoritarian/law-and-order hardliners. Frankly, it's disgusting.

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