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Your example demonstrates how broken the current system is and why it's good that there are states in the US that are at least trying to kickstart change. Start
by trompetenaccoun 4y ago
Your example demonstrates how broken the current system is and why it's good that there are states in the US that are at least trying to kickstart change. Starting with the early days of the internet, which was about connecting the world and the free flow of information/knowledge, we've ended up with a global censorship machine controlled in places like China by totalitarian states and in the US by dystopian megacorporations that remove everything governments in various jurisdictions tell them too plus some extra for their own agenda and politics.
That German law is wrong (as are most other such laws) and it's done nothing to prevent political calamity. On the contrary, it can be argued the overly protected German public sleepwalked into another war on European soil, one that could have possibly been prevented if they'd realized the danger posed by Putin's regime earlier.
Free expression can be difficult and a struggle. Free repression on the other hand feels nice and safe for some folks initially. They don't have to deal with all those uncomfortable opinions. In the long run it almost always makes things much worse when you don't talk things out.