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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Re:Now you see

[AutodidactLabrat]

Google is not government and may censor whatever it wishes on its property.
DUH!
If the University was staging the counter protest you might have a point.
it is not.

They're surprisingly well organized

[rsilvergun]

given that several European governments are tamping down on them. Antifa are mostly anarchists. By definition they're poorly organized. A well organized anarchist isn't an anarchist.

Also, you do know that Islamic Terrorists are right wing, right? They're conservative and authoritarian. As for economics, sure, they'll take control of all the money, but everybody but the anarchists does that. And the anarchists are really just giving that control up to the right wing (nature abhors a power vacuum).

And if you live in the United States it's a fact that there is more right wing terror acts than Left wing. I can't be bothered to google the proof for you right now, but you could find it by highlighting the last sentence and clicking "Search google for..."

You're just noticing the Left more because the Right owns the media and is using it to push it's narrative. They're doing this so they can take more money from the working class for themselves. And that's sorta why I'm on the Left...

Re: Now you see

[CanHasDIY]

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.

Holy shit!

How did he kill her with words?

Oh wait, you mean the guy who hit the person blocking the street with his car, immediately after said car was vandalized by an angry mob swinging baseball bats (one could almost think he was reacting to the assault)?

Yea, I bet ideology had a lot less to do with that situation than the actual situation itself. Funnel that much stupid into one place... hell, I'm amazed only one person died, to be honest.

Re: Now you see

[BlueStrat]

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.

And why was Heather Heyer out there in the street to be killed in the first place?

Because antifa, BAMN, BLM, etc...in other words the US Left...has gone violent and made these tiny groups of white supremacists the center of media attention and ginned-up public outrage until someone like Heather loses her life, all so the Left has a martyr. Heaher Heyer's death is squarely on the shoulders of the US Left.

Strat

Re: Correct summary

[ShanghaiBill]

Both sides are violent, but in different ways. In the last century, the left killed more than the right, but most of those deaths were due to economic incompetence rather than intentional actions. Killing out of hate is far more common on the right. Stalin allowed millions of Ukrainian kulaks to starve, not because he hated them, but because he saw them as a threat to his power. But the Jews were not a threat to Hitler, they had supported the Kaiser in WW1, and they got along with Fascists like Franco, who did not share the Nazi's anti-semitism.

The same is true today. In Charlottesville, the alt-left directed their anger at their opponents on the alt-right. The alt-right chanted against leftists, but also blacks, Jews, gays, etc.

Re:We have the opposite problem in the US

[LynnwoodRooster]

So - Communism is right wing now? I guess we always have been at war with Eurasia...