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Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by anigbrowl on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:52PM (#32707095)
The economy of Germany is a highly developed social market economy.[24] It has the largest national economy in Europe, the fourth-largest by nominal GDP in the world, and fifth by GDP (PPP). In 2017, the country accounted for 28% of the euro area economy according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).[25]

Looks OK

Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by jdasdf on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:28PM (#32707556)
Compare it to US states. Hint: its at the bottom in GDP and income per capita
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by anigbrowl on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:11PM (#32708022)
No it isn't. German GDP per capita exceeds that of Florida.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by lovich on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:54PM (#32707126)
The EU has a similar population size, wide censorship laws for this kinda of conduct, and a similar economy size. China has a similar economy and much stricter speech laws. The US isn't economically special because of free speech

Edit: fixed a typo, changed a “must” to “much”

Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by spoils19 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:04PM (#32707274)
The lack of free speech laws means its impossible to accurately determine whether the reported figures are accurate, since the government can just censor what they don't like. So no, I (and I imagine most conservatives) don't accept that conclusion.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms by lovich on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:07PM (#32707304)
oh ok, well if were in the conspiracy zone then you just have to accept that actually they have a 1 million times greater economy, because no figures can be trusted.

Facetiousness aside, the censorship laws in the EU are around hate speech like flying Nazi symbology, not laws that let them silence people reporting economic numbers.