Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by esyir on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:14PM
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As far as I can tell, those didn't look like the USA applying martial law to large swathes of its populace.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by mmmmmbop on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:05PM
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That's true, but also not the criteria the original poster proposed.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by umanwizard on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:36PM
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They presumably meant the Nazi period (1933-1945) and the period of SED rule in East Germany (1949-1990).
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by robonerd on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:56PM
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It's a sliver over a hundred years ago now, but Germany was also under a military dictatorship lead by Hindenburg and Ludendorff from 1916 through 1918.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by hef19898 on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:19PM
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Free speech was all but dead between 1914 and 1918 everywhere. Not saying Luddendorff wasn't defacto military dictator, he was, just pointing out that this had no additional negative impact on free speech during this time.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by raxxorraxor on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:51AM
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I was talking about the Nazi and the GDR regime. I am aware that US foreign policy is controversial, but never did the US murder people on a comparable scale.
Your proposed rule might be unpractical, since it would disallow the U.S. government from from saying anything about free speech for at least 30 more years (see [1] and [2]).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...