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You may be unaware, but the EU, India, and China have also engaged in their own versions of economically-pressured internet presence takedowns of international
by drak0n1c 1mo ago
You may be unaware, but the EU, India, and China have also engaged in their own versions of economically-pressured internet presence takedowns of international activists and dissidents they label subversive. The degree differs according to leverage and their constitutional reasoning, but there is no spirit of opposition to this type of policy if that’s what you’re imagining.
- inigyou 1mo agoYep. People have had their homes raided in Germany for hosting online content about the Israeli genocide of Palestine. You don't get any warning - the police just show up and take all electronic devices, no exceptions.
- bentley 1mo agoPeople have had their homes raided in Germany and electronics seized for calling politicians dicks on Twitter or Facebook.
- inigyou 1mo agoThat's actually a crime though and everyone knows it's a crime.
- suslik 29d agoThe fact that it is a crime (if it is, indeed, a fact), only makes it even more fucked up.
- bentley 29d agoIt is indeed illegal to insult someone in Germany (Beleidigung). Actually, it’s illegal in quite a number of countries. Such a concept feels very archaic in the Anglosphere, like a remnant of honor culture, duels, etc. which we lost our taste for in the nineteenth century; and doubly so for the USA with its strong freedom of speech protections.