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Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time
An anonymous reader writes: You may recall Popcorn Time, the software that integrated torrents with a streaming media player. It fell afoul of the law quite quickly, but survived and stabilized. Now, out of Denmark comes news that two men operating websites related to Popcorn Time have been arrested, and their sites have been shut down. It's notable because the sites were informational resources, explaining how to use the software. They did not link to any copyright-infringing material, they were not involved with development of Popcorn Time or any of its forks, and they didn't host the software. "Both men stand accused of distributing knowledge and guides on how to obtain illegal content online and are reported to have confessed."
If Hitler were miraculously still alive and arrested today in Europe, he wouldn't get the death penalty
So? The Nazi Germany didn't do anything that other countries, including Britain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, etc., had not also done. The only difference is that Hitler did it to white people.
More people were killed in forced labor on rubber plantations, than in all the Nazi death camps combined.
So? The Nazi Germany didn't do anything that other countries, including Britain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, etc., had not also done. The only difference is that Hitler did it to white people.
More people were killed in forced labor on rubber plantations, than in all the Nazi death camps combined.
That is misleading; those figures for Congo are "depopulation" losses, not people killed. No other comparison points implied, but several western countries these days are being "depopulated" due to falling birth numbers, that doesn't mean there are secret massacres going on. "Depopulation" also includes population losses from people deciding to only have 1-2 kids instead of 3-4 kids needed to sustain the population.
Sure, there were huge atrocities going on in Congo, but the numbers you are quoting aren't only about people being killed as forced labor on rubber plantation as you claim. According to your cited source, the majority died of "sleeping sickness", still a killer disease in Congo these days.
The Death camps however where targeted killing machines, murdering people sometimes minutes after they had arrived by train. They also killed millions of people in a very short time, basically a couple of years, while the Congo depopulation took 40 years. The Nazi war on the eastern front killed +27 million people in 3-4 years in comparison.
Also of interest is that the (at least) 6 millions Jews killed was just the warm-up, since Mischlinge (half/quarter/etc Jewish descent) was next, and with the "General Plan Ost", the Nazi regime basically intended to exterminate all Slavic people from Poland to the Ural mountains except for a small amount that was to be kept as slaves.
Saying that Hitler and the Nazi regime only did what the British, Belgians etc, had done previously is just plain out wrong. There has never been anything remotely like the Nazi Death camps before.
There has also never been anything in both scale and intentions that have ever matched the Nazi regime when it came to Genocide, not even Stalin's USSR.