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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by Argonaut998 on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:05AM (#47085952)
I’m European and I do not. France and the UK especially come from the same liberal intellectual root as the USA. What we see today is a bastardisation of these principles in Europe. Only the US was smart enough to canonise it into law.
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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by mcv on Friday February 20, 2026 @02:50PM (#47092984)
Yet the US has far worse attacks on free speech. And plenty of European countries also canonised it into law.
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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by arrrg on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:25AM (#47099759)
Democracy also includes sometimes things not happening the way you want to … happens to me all the time, too.

Obviously free (and not merely democratic societies) need strong protections of minorities and broad freedoms, but I don’t see free speech implementations in Europe broadly infringing on that.

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