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Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net
Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted. The German Wikipedia has more than 800,000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and judges."
Germany isn't, what you see now is just a tiny spec of what leftist policies can do. World war 2, the endlosung, hitler, the gulag, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and China are reminders what the strings are that are attached to "social justice" and "national healthcare".
For many on slashdot, they're not enough reminders. Olame-a "I'll give everyone 5000$" is trying to do the same in America.
For now Germany's weak, and it's leftist politicians have little hope of forcing others. But that won't last.
..arbitrary and punitive judgements that piss them off. Hey, wikihitlers!! How do you like it when someone else has the power to take your page off the internet, hey? You like being the victim of arbitrary and unfair judgements? No? So stop being such assholes in future then and maybe I'll care more next time.
wikipedia.. a useless and untrustworthy source of information. IMHO. Just because its free, it doesn't mean its better.
That's why Obama wants the same laws in the US. After all can't have people questioning why a certain name "allah" was mentioned right before 3000 american civilians died in an attack ...
That would be "intolerant" and "hateful", now wouldn't it ? Static that the founder of an ideology that kills hundreds daily was a paedophilic massacring thief. That mohamed "the prophet" was a paedophilic massacrer, a fact fully acknowledged at least 5 times daily by every last muslims. Their commitment to repeating those crimes, to be exact, is what is mentioned 5 times daily.
Such things, you see "propagate hate". I fully agree they should be banned. Let's start by burning the quran :
Muslims are the filthiest beasts on earth
that last statement comes literally from the quran (8:55). I just switched "infidels" and "muslims"
Women are mere cattle
Men are superior to women
Kill them, wherever they can be found
Fight and kill until we are the only ones left
Rape the women of the enemy
There must always be war. It's good for us
Every last muslim has sold his soul to allah for paradise. allah's orders are to fight, kill and die in his name
All these are from the quran. Let's ban hate. Ban islam. Ban the constant killings. Let's keep our world free.
But you can be absolutely sure that banning hate is one thing those "anti-hate" laws will never do.
I may not agree with the above parent post, but your idiotic claims should be put right.
Hitler wasn't really that left wing, he had some left wing policies but overall I'd definitely not call him left-wing.
Say, that word, nazi, what does it mean again ? Oh right ... it translates to "socialist".
Transferring ownership of means of production exclusively to the state and then creating "social justice", the central part of the nazi policy, what's that according to you ?
Left or right ?
Hitler was a fucking nobel peace prize laureate due to a leftist "professor", with a questionable past. THAT's how left he was. He had his own Ayers behind him.
The suppression of free speech is standard operating procedure for the Left.
No surprise a former Fascist/Communist secret policeman finds himself so at home in the Left-wing.
Is your hate politically correct hate?
Do you believe that racism is wrong unless you hate white people?
Do you believe that sexism is wrong unless you hate men?
Do you believe that sexual discrimination is wrong unless you hate heterosexuals?
Do you believe that religious intolerance is wrong unless you hate Christians?
Do you believe that freedom of speech involves censoring offensive non-Politically Correct speech?
Do you believe that DoubleThink is hard and that DoubleThink is easy?
Do you keep such an open mind that your brain fell out?
Are you a hypocrite and a bigot? Do your friends praise you for it and call you morally superior? Do you think that your bigotry makes you a better person than others?
If your hate is politically correct hate then the political left is the place for you.
You mean like the USSR ? Lefty politics necessitate totalitarianism. After all, by default people trade. Communism and socialism can only be imposed by force of arms, unlike capitalism.
His speeches about left-wing politics were about how those movements were really infiltrataion attempts by the USSR aimed at conquering Germany with minimal fight. You might care to actually check them out.
Unfortunately, at least in a few cases, he was right about that. They had no intrest in peace, they just wanted the red army to not meet resistance.
You see, socialism necessitates totalitarianism. Absolute power. And you can't have TWO people with absolute power, now can you ?
maybe he is but you know what they say - sometimes children say the most insightful things.
No - even if he is 14 years old, his argument is still true.
You do not have the right not to be offended, full stop.
You do have the right not to be discriminated against in matters that affect you physically or financially, but people saying bad things that you don't like?
Piss off, you sanctimonious twat - it's idiots like you that make liberal ideas seem stupid, because you are.
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
Germany is a piece of shit country anyhow. The term "German engineering" lost it's meaning years ago and the country has become nothing more than a hotbed for censorship and retarded animal rights activists. Are you familiar with "indexing?" Also I think it's bullshit that Nazi paraphernalia are completely banned there. It's like some sort of government-backed form of Holocaust denial or something. Hell they're not even that good at making beer anymore, with English and Czech beer being far superior to anything coming out of Deutscheland. The only good things about Germany now is Summer Breeze and Wacken Open Air. Fuck you, Germany. Fuck you.
I would say you have a country that I have absolutely no interest in ever living in. Anyone can say anything.
Your national health care system uses drugs developed by American drug companies, and your doctors use technology and techniques pioneered in the US. If there is much of any other influence on your medical system it is from France and the UK.
Without a profit motive developments in healthcare will dramatically slow.