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Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by bitwize on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:53PM (#25695107)
> I hate how people on HN is praising this.

In most countries in the world, you can go to jail for saying the wrong thing. This includes countries which are, for all practical purposes, freer than the USA -- like Germany, which hasn't renazified since WWII in part because of its hate speech laws.

So no, not everybody recognizes that unfettered expression is a universal good. There are places which have already experienced the danger of free-speech absolutism.

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Re:Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store by roenxi on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:07PM (#25695972)
> Germany, which hasn't renazified since WWII in part because of its hate speech laws.

The US has a number of troops stationed in Germany comparable to the German army. The ideology of Germany has not been left to chance at any point after WWII.

That probably isn't the model that most people look for in their own country's governance.

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