Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by allendoerfer on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:02PM
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In Germany you cannot advertise nazism, which you can in America. This restriction of free speech in Germany is exactly put in place to prevent a totalitarian state.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by valenterry on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:23AM
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It's a bad idea to do that. To prevent a totalitarian state, there should be general and abstract rules that prevent advertising things that lead to a totalitarian state.
Having specific restrictions for nazism can have the opposite effect: people think everything is fine because there is no nazism, but other groups, using similar dangerous schemes will not be regarded as dangerous.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by busterarm on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:30PM
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I found it interesting that the last time I was in Berlin, about a year ago, I kept finding the same stickers everywhere being used for vandalism, initially with an anti-fascist message and then just as many cleverly scratched over to change the message to anti-Semitic hate speech.
Equally interesting was that these things were everywhere and none of the locals I was with had ever seen them before. Out of sight, out of mind.