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- simianparrot 9mo agoDon't worry, this time it's the Social Democrats who ban books, it's _totally_ different.
- undeveloper 9mo agoMost western countries who care about IP have banned piracy. I'm not anti piracy but it's silly to compare.
- bflesch 9mo agoBack in the day it was US media companies which started the big war against piracy and for the use of DRM. It was pushed by US media companies and the US government upon Europe. Same as with software patents. It's weird that now US companies complain about local media rights holders doing their censorship thing when the whole thing was started by the US.
- bakies 9mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_States_(2021%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta... > Participants: Republican lawmakers in red states oh weird, it's the opposite of what you said.
- miningape 9mo agoPolitics isn't the exclusive hobby of the united states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/the-spd-parties-in-the-german-bundestag https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/the-spd-parties... And by the way, in the same wikipedia link you posted, there's documentation of Democrats also banning books.
- bakies 9mo agoWhat book banning are you referencing, then? it's all very vague
- asgeesg 9mo ago[dead]
- linkregister 9mo agoI demand the RIGHT to get media for free without paying for it! And I equate this with a ban on literature!
- robinhood 9mo agoNot every comment about Germany requires a mention of a dark past.
- sammy2255 9mo agoDoesn't require it, but in this case it sure is relevant
- robinhood 9mo agoIt does not, since the context is absolutely not the same. Closing a major piracy actor VS actions that led to a world war.
- sammy2255 9mo agoBanning books is the same as banning books. Whether it's in the name of censorship or anti-piracy
- oytis 9mo agoNot sure you can call it censorship if it's the author of the book who doesn't want you to access it for free. I know there are a few levels of indirection here, but with a few notable exceptions authors are normally against their books being pirated. I personally sure want Anna's Archive staying up, but comparing it to nazis burning books is a bit too much IMO
- hermanzegerman 9mo agoBecause the US doesn't act against copyright infringement? They just suspended the Annas Archive .org domain At least we don't ban books from Libraries, because they contain the true history or "wrong thought" and Republicans don't like that
- carefulfungi 9mo agoDon't even need to rely to anti-piracy to find book banners. US public schools continue to accelerate their book banning tendencies. * https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/ https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/ * https://www.ala.org/news/2025/04/american-library-association-kicks-national-library-week-top-10-most-challenged-books https://www.ala.org/news/2025/04/american-library-associatio... * https://cdhe.colorado.gov/banned-book-list https://cdhe.colorado.gov/banned-book-list Book bans at department of defense high schools are resulting directly from this administration's executive orders. * https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/dodea-book-bans https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/dodea-book-bans We need to keep fighting for the right to read freely. Meanwhile, waiting for Cloudflare to walk away from their US government contracts to protest these blatant free speech attacks.
- dang 9mo ago"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html