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Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com)
Germany is set to start enforcing a law that demands social media sites move quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material. From a report: Sites that do not remove "obviously illegal" posts could face fines of up to 50m euro ($60m). The law gives the networks 24 hours to act after they have been told about law-breaking material. Social networks and media sites with more than two million members will fall under the law's provisions. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be the law's main focus but it is also likely to be applied to Reddit, Tumblr and Russian social network VK. Other sites such as Vimeo and Flickr could also be caught up in its provisions.
https://www.rt.com/news/414744-berlin-sexual-harassment-arrested/
https://www.rt.com/news/414742-german-broadcaster-criticized-stabbing-refugee/
They are trying to prevent the Evil that happened before from coming back. Hate speach against Jews -> violence against Jews -> death camps for Jews.
Very understandable. Yet one thing very important to the NAZI government was control of the media and its content, so they should proceed with caution.
Americans killed by Nazis in 2017:
Heather Heyer
Taliesin Namkai Meche
Ricky Best
Richard Collins III
Timothy Caughman
Srinivas Kuchibhotla
Buckley Kuhn-Fricker
Scott Fricker
Americans killed by anti-fascists: 0
You are welcome on my lawn.
Pushing for more free speech isn't pushing for more "hate speech". Sure, you probably end up getting more "hate speech", but so what? Screeching "HATE SPEECH" doesn't actually make any valid points. It's a feelings argument going nowhere. You're a fucking idiot.
Remember those 5 cops killed in Dallas(plus 12 injured) in 2017? Yeah, he bought into the anti-fascist/anti-cop rhetoric. So was the female cop sitting in the evidence van and had her brains smeared all over the inside. Oh did I mention she was also black and a single parent, and the person was also an anti-fascist/anti-cop nut. Then there were the two troopers in Georgia, another in Tennessee again the same garbage. And that's off the top of my head. Several more in Michigan, and on and on and on. Out of those, almost every case the person was an anti-cop and/or anti-fascist nut, who left behind long screeds justifying their murder of people.
Despite your list up at the top:
Heather Heyer - not directly killed, hasn't been proven in court. Maybe indirectly. Was not struck by the vehicle, died of heart attack. Was massively overweight, and a chain smoker.
Taliesin Namkai Meche - Not killed by a nazi, but by a supremacist of a different flavor.
Ricky Best - Same as above, linked to same story as Meche. Also suspect has yet to have their day in court.
Richard Collins III - unable to make any tie. Posted to a facebook group called "alt-riech" which was nothing but shitposting and memes. That's by the media's own fact checking in this case.
Timothy Caughman - unable to make any tie. Appears to be exactly the same as the black guy who walked up to a white guy a few years ago and shot him. Reasoning is the same "wanted to kill x group"
Srinivas Kuchibhotla - unable to make tie. Only sources are reportedlies and hearsay.
Buckley Kuhn-Fricker & Scott Fricker tied together. Unable to make tie, claims of "nazi behavior." Again no evidence, only reportedlies and hearsay.
In all of those above cases, there are no direct ties, no ranting screeds. You know, I'm sure someone can bring out the "all those white people killed by blacks" over the last 20 years, and were killed just because they were white if they really wanted. I mean come on, it's not like BLM has come out saying hate whitey or to shoot cops or anything. Oh right, they've said both...
Om, nomnomnom...
You do know that the Nazis were socialists, right? I mean, it is right there in the name. And in the party platform. And in the books. And in the speeches. And in the policies.
The "right wing" in Germany was terminal by the 1920s. Germany was getting socialism ASAP, the question was - who is going to be in charge of German socialism?
On the broadest level, the debate was between the communists who wanted Germany to be ruled by Russians, and the Nazis who wanted Germany to be ruled by Germans. The two platforms were identical in regards to pretty much all economic matters - socialist healthcare, socialist retirement plans, socialist education, socialist employment and labor practices - all the same. What was different was that the Nazis rejected the anti-national planks of the communist plan. For example, they didn't want the German people dispersed across Russia and Russians brought in to fill the vacancies. (See Holodomor)
The Nazi party actual rose up because the government was not suppressing the communists, who then felt like they had free reign to attack the people.
The SA (which was later absorbed by the Nazi party) was a non-government organization originally set up to protect the political process (rallies, meetings, elections, etc) from communist groups like the RFB. They were doing the job the government had failed to do.
Believing fairy tales about the past is a sure way to be surprised when it comes back around.
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