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>"Posts from the accounts included one making the debunked claim that vaccines create viral variants and another that wished death upon police officers who brok

>"Posts from the accounts included one making the debunked claim that vaccines create viral variants and another that wished death upon police officers who broke up violent anti-lockdown protests in Berlin." and in addition "[...]“Simply sharing a belief or affinity with a particular movement or group wouldn’t be enough” to warrant a similar response, he told reporters on a conference call Thursday." This seems fair enough. Incitement to violence in Germany is taken seriously and threatening the police for upholding the law is ridiculous. It should never fly in any civil society. I know this sort of meta commenting is frowned upon here but people acting as if these were literally just "anti-lockdown" opinions makes me think nobody even bothered to read the article.

native_samples 5y ago
People read it but just don't trust it. The sort of people who are trying to shut down all anti-lockdown protests are the sort of people who routinely describe any speech they dislike as "violence" that makes people "unsafe" so their claims about inciting violence are worthless. Also, mis-characterising protests is the easiest thing in the world. Remember the BLM protests were "mostly peaceful" even as cars were literally on fire behind the journalists saying that. They would have no problems bending reporting in the other direction. Here's some footage of the equivalent protests in Paris. https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/16/footage-of-the-protests-in-paris-last-saturday/ https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/16/footage-of-the-protests-... The protesters are marching whilst heavily armed police tear gas them, try to stop them moving down the streets, fire things into the air (not entirely sure what but it's some kind of projectile weapon), corral them, try to fine them for turning up a few hours early, and so on.

native_samples 5y ago

People read it but just don't trust it. The sort of people who are trying to shut down all anti-lockdown protests are the sort of people who routinely describe any speech they dislike as "violence" that makes people "unsafe" so their claims about inciting violence are worthless. Also, mis-characterising protests is the easiest thing in the world. Remember the BLM protests were "mostly peaceful" even as cars were literally on fire behind the journalists saying that. They would have no problems bending reporting in the other direction. Here's some footage of the equivalent protests in Paris. https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/16/footage-of-the-protests-in-paris-last-saturday/ https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/16/footage-of-the-protests-... The protesters are marching whilst heavily armed police tear gas them, try to stop them moving down the streets, fire things into the air (not entirely sure what but it's some kind of projectile weapon), corral them, try to fine them for turning up a few hours early, and so on.