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Deutschlandecho would be an example where the state shut down a right-wing page. Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD).

by mikejb 9y ago

majewsky 9y ago
Continuous, but also decidedly unsuccessful.
- mikejb 9y ago
  This shut down will be just as successful.
cockofthewalk 9y ago
You mean the NPD which was ruled unconstitutional but too small to be of importance, therefore not outlawed? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/german-court-far-right.html?mcubz=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/german-court... Horrible.
- mikejb 9y ago
  I'm not fully following on what your point is; My post was primarily intended to be informative of political actions on the other side of extremism. Also, banning a political party is quite a big hammer, regardless of how important the party itself is.
  - dtornabene 9y ago
    Do you have any awareness about the laws governing the history of violent extremism in Germany? Theres a reason right wing and far right wing parties face legal scrutiny.
    - mikejb 9y ago
      Technically speaking, there's no law governing any history; There's laws governing behavior in the present that arose from events in history. I live in Germany for 12 years by now; I can't claim a lawyer-level knowledge of e.g. §130 StGB, but I have a basic understanding. What I'm having trouble following is the logic of "the violent extremism on the other side is less bad, because it hasn't led to similarly horrible effects yet".
Toboe 9y ago
>Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD). "Normal" right-wing as in conservative would be CDU and CSU. To quote the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) [0] >Die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) vertritt ein auf die Beseitigung der bestehenden freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung gerichtetes politisches Konzept. The Nationaldemocratic Party Germany (NPD) stands for a political concept aimed at abolishing the free democratic constitutional structure. [0] https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2017/bvg17-004.html https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit... edit: fix'd formatting

Deutschlandecho would be an example where the state shut down a right-wing page. Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD).

by mikejb 9y ago

Deutschlandecho would be an example where the state shut down a right-wing page. Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD).

majewsky 9y ago

Continuous, but also decidedly unsuccessful.

mikejb 9y ago
This shut down will be just as successful.

cockofthewalk 9y ago

You mean the NPD which was ruled unconstitutional but too small to be of importance, therefore not outlawed? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/german-court-far-right.html?mcubz=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/german-court... Horrible.

mikejb 9y ago
I'm not fully following on what your point is; My post was primarily intended to be informative of political actions on the other side of extremism. Also, banning a political party is quite a big hammer, regardless of how important the party itself is.
- dtornabene 9y ago
  Do you have any awareness about the laws governing the history of violent extremism in Germany? Theres a reason right wing and far right wing parties face legal scrutiny.
  - mikejb 9y ago
    Technically speaking, there's no law governing any history; There's laws governing behavior in the present that arose from events in history. I live in Germany for 12 years by now; I can't claim a lawyer-level knowledge of e.g. §130 StGB, but I have a basic understanding. What I'm having trouble following is the logic of "the violent extremism on the other side is less bad, because it hasn't led to similarly horrible effects yet".

Toboe 9y ago

>Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD). "Normal" right-wing as in conservative would be CDU and CSU. To quote the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) [0] >Die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) vertritt ein auf die Beseitigung der bestehenden freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung gerichtetes politisches Konzept. The Nationaldemocratic Party Germany (NPD) stands for a political concept aimed at abolishing the free democratic constitutional structure. [0] https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2017/bvg17-004.html https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit... edit: fix'd formatting