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This sounds like a story I've heard several times in Germany. It goes like this: ① Someone like that Free Speech Union does something that is perhaps forbidden
by Arnt 4y ago
This sounds like a story I've heard several times in Germany. It goes like this: ① Someone like that Free Speech Union does something that is perhaps forbidden for you and me, but they're doing it for noble political reasons and somehow avoid prosecution. ② Someone else pushes through a rule change, either to allow the forbidden thing when done for political reasons, or to prevent it being done by e.g. blocking funding to related organisations.
This is where the Telegraph is now. The next step, not anticipated by the Telegraph: ③ People of the wrong political shade leverage the rule change to effect exactly the opposite of what was intended.
- timthorn 4y agoNot sure about your step 1. No one has claimed that the FSU has done anything illegal, let alone called for a prosecution.
- cloutchaser 4y agoThey offer financial and legal assistance to people who are deplatformed. Apparently that is already borderline or fully illegal in many people's eyes these days. Baffles the mind that no trial, no defence, instant punishment is literally what people are calling for in the west.
- inglor_cz 4y agoWesterners are not magically immune from autocratic thinking, our comon history is full of various tyrannies. There is a lot of ruin in any nation. Plus, the degraded intellectual environment of the social networks is a rich soil for various pathologies. One of our current problems is that a lot of such pathologies flourish on universities of all places. The very institutions that should cultivate critical thinking are sliding towards enforced conformity instead. Who is going to take up their abandoned task?
- Arnt 4y agoAOL. People are calling for lawyers to lose their license even when those lawyers work according to the taxi rank principle. Incomprehensible to me.