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Re:President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship by tpush on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:13AM (#25745300)
Small inaccuracy by Bloomberg: Merkel was speaking of freedom of opinion(Meinungsfreiheit) and not freedom of speech(Redefreiheit), the latter doesn’t exist as such in Germany.
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Re:President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship by samoa42 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:34AM (#25745982)
> freedom of speech(Redefreiheit), the latter doesn’t exist as such in Germany.

yes it does! article 5 of the constitution

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_5.html

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Re:President of Mexico warns about Silicon Valley censorship by tpush on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:56AM (#25746175)
Well, that’s freedom of expression. Not quite the same, but I will concede your point :)
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