Re:Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating...
by pessimizer on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:45AM
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But there are many banned named groups. Germany is not unique in this. That's a thing foreign to the US that Americans may not understand, which is why I mentioned it. I can start a group called the "Destroy The Government Now Neo-Nazis" in the US with no fear that it will ever be banned.
Re:Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating...
by dragonwriter on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:48AM
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> I can start a group called the "Destroy The Government Now Neo-Nazis" in the US with no fear that it will ever be banned.
Gang injunctions (sufficiently, but not exclusively) prove that this is not true.
Re:Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating...
by hedora on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:18PM
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Neo-Nazis are good white Christian folks. Domestic terrorism and gang laws don't apply to them.
(I wish I was joking.)
Re:Telegram now censoring channels in Germany for “violating...
by dragonwriter on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:21PM
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“The US is structurally sympathetic to Neo-Nazis” is a different, and more difficult to refute, argument than “the US doesn't ban groups”.
You make it sound like Germany is constantly banning political parties. There have been exactly two bans of political parties in the post-war history of Germany: A nazi party in 1952 and a communist party in 1956. Also don't forget who occupied Germany in this decade and made a lot of its decisions.