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A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website

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808 points shaunpud | 5 comments | 24 Aug 25 10:27 UTC | HN request time: 1.145s | source
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ulrischa ◴[24 Aug 25 11:15 UTC] No.45003303[source]▶
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ur-whale ◴[24 Aug 25 12:10 UTC] No.45003629[source]▶
> bigger than one would think

Why in heaven's name would anyone think that censorship is NOT super heavy-handed in Germany?

Does Germany have a recent or historical track record of EVER being a liberal-minded place?

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1. simonask ◴[24 Aug 25 12:34 UTC] No.45003784[source]▶
Yes, it absolutely does.
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2. zahlman ◴[24 Aug 25 13:04 UTC] No.45003975[source]▶
For understandable reasons, censorship in particular of Holocaust and Nazi-related imagery is especially heavy-handed in Germany. Among other things, this has led to bans of several video games (note how much space is dedicated to Germany on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_by_...) that were relatively popular and uncontroversial in North America, particularly ones with an eye to historic simulation. The context of depicting the Nazis as unquestionably the bad guys who you as a player character must vanquish, does not matter to the censors.
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3. ur-whale ◴[24 Aug 25 17:11 UTC] No.45005872[source]▶
> For understandable reasons

There is no such thing as "understandable" when it comes to censorship, especially when it comes to Nazi imagery, and especially in Germany.

If there's actually one place where it needs to be remembered, it's absolutely there.

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4. zahlman ◴[24 Aug 25 18:43 UTC] No.45006594{3}[source]▶
It absolutely is remembered in Germany. There are museums dedicated to the topic, even.

They just aren't displaying the insignia of the Reich.

5. account42 ◴[25 Aug 25 12:28 UTC] No.45013123{3}[source]▶
> If there's actually one place where it needs to be remembered, it's absolutely there.

Why? What lessons do you think the German people need to learn that others do not?