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Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: An influential website linked to violence at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg last month has been ordered to shut down, in the first such move against left-wing extremists in the country (alternative source), the authorities in Germany said on Friday. Thomas de Maiziere, the interior minister, said that the unrest in Hamburg, during which more than 20,000 police officers were deployed and more than 400 people arrested or detained, had been stirred up on the website and showed the "serious consequences" of left-wing extremism. "The prelude to the G-20 summit in Hamburg was not the only time that violent actions and attacks on infrastructural facilities were mobilized on linksunten.indymedia," he said, referring to the website. The order on Friday was the latest move in a long battle against extremism in Germany. It comes in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., this month and amid worries about "antifa" factions that use violence to combat the far-right in the United States.

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  1. Re: Now you see by ClickOnThis · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There are only a few thousand of them in the entire US of ~350M people. They have no power. They're silly little goose-stepping idiots. They are no serious threat to anyone or anything.

    Tell that to the family of Heather Heyer. It took only one of them to allegedly kill her.

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  2. Re:They're surprisingly well organized by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You're just noticing the Left more because the Right owns the media and is using it to push it's narrative.

    The right owns the media and controls the narrative? I guess that's why members of the press self-identify as Democrats versus Republicans at a 4:1 ratio. Must be all those right-wingers at the New York Times, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, etc. I guess the 20 to 1 endorsement rate of Hillary! over Trump is just the right wing manifesting itself in the media.

    Seriously, put down the bong, drop your copy of Hillary!'s excuse/blame-fest "What Happened?", and, well - go away.

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