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Dangerous precedent. Expect this to be "good" for a couple years, then the definition gradually expands while nobody is looking and is used to penalize any sort
by fiblye 9y ago
Dangerous precedent. Expect this to be "good" for a couple years, then the definition gradually expands while nobody is looking and is used to penalize any sort of thought that doesn't fit the social norm.
- Barrin92 9y agothe definition isn't expanding, it's simply applying laws that existed since the inception of the German Federal state seven decades ago to businesses that operate on the internet. Here in Germany racebaiting, holocaust denial and so forth are not protected under freedom of speech, never have never will be. Americans will probably not understand it in the near future, but in German jurisdiction German law still applies. Digital business or not. I mean, Facebook basically censors every naked piece of skin already and I have to live with it because apparently this is offensive to Americans. Now I find banning nazi propaganda to be much less controversial than a naked human body, but apparently tastes diverge
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