Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations
by hfuyf65 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:58PM
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This censorship is in a capital of a western power. We can condemn Hamas AND condemn failing democratic society by not upholding basic freedoms that built it.
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Re:France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations
by medvezhenok on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:25PM
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The censorship is likely an uncomfortable trade-off. In an ideal world, we would allow speech and carefully police when that speech turns into death threats or violent action.
However, state capabilities and surveillance capabilities are not sufficient in the west for the second part of that. So the devil's compromise is to restrict the former (because people who would be motivated to issue death threats or commit violent actions are frequently encouraged by the former actions of free speech).