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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

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160 points cruzcampo | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.302s | source
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snehk ◴[11 Apr 25 08:42 UTC] No.43651672[source]▶
> Yet to many Europeans the idea that free expression is under threat seems odd. Europeans can say almost anything they want, both in theory and in practice.

A journalist in Germany was just sentenced to seven months for posting a meme of a politician where she holds up a sign saying "I hate free speech".

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nancy-faeser-afd-...

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1. isolli ◴[11 Apr 25 12:00 UTC] No.43652854[source]▶
German politicians are known for lodging countless complaints for the slightest insults online. [0]

The 60 minutes segment was also quite revealing of the (in my opinion, poor) state of free speech in Germany. [1]

As Bill Maher said, "Germany is so afraid to look like their Nazi past, that they're knocking on people's doors, taking people's phones and computers if you insult people online."

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/gewalt-gegen-poli...

[1] https://x.com/60Minutes/status/1891282394440732787