Posted on 01/25/2018 11:28:36 AM PST by detective
Germany's new law requires social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to censor their users on behalf of the government. Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online "criminal offenses" within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint -- regardless of whether the content is accurate or not.
Social media platforms now have the power to shape the form of current political and cultural discourse by deciding who will speak and what they will say.
Notice the ease with which the police chief mentioned that he had filed charges to silence a leading political opponent of the government. That is what authorities do in police states: Through censorship and criminal charges, they silence outspoken critics and political opponents of government policies, such as Beatrix von Storch, who has sharply criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel's migration policies.
While such policies would doubtless have earned the German authorities many points with the old Stasi regime of East Germany, they more than likely contravene the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to which Germany is a party, as well as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Just like in the former East Germany.
Stasi...Nazi...Germans never change.
This is what we struggled for all through the cold war? To protect these worthless losers?
Flashing , Merkel,Merkel,Merkel
Muzzie, muzzie, muzzie.
Can someone come up w/generic text in german?
It might be interesting to spend a day filing complaints about every post from lefties.
While such policies would doubtless have earned the German authorities many points with the old Stasi regime of East Germany
Stasi=The Ministry for State Security.
The Stasi was part of the East German regime, not as the author implies, the regime itself.
The German government needs to learn a thing or two from our leftists. Here in the U.S., Facebook et al are so friendly with their political masters that they enthusiastically do the censoring on their own.
“Stasi=The Ministry for State Security.
The Stasi was part of the East German regime, not as the author implies, the regime itself.”
I think what the author meant was that the STASI was the enforcement part of the government and the only thing that kept the corrupt, unpopular regime in power.
I think the author is using STASI as a descriptive adjective, not as the name of the regime.
But, I agree with you, the sentence is poorly worded.
Germany under murkul is forcing people to accept being raped and murdered by the new “immigrants.” The only way to enforce this is with a secret police. They didn’t learn their lesson under naziism or communism.
Just like in former east Germany and in the new USA
The Stassi were merely collectors of information...taking reports....filing them.
If anyone ever wants some good reading, go Google up the Neptune Hotel and Stassi. This was a East German hotel on the Baltic coast where folks went to relax. Each room had a microphone and the two-man crew would pick and choose rooms to listen in and collect information. 338 rooms.
It is a preoccupation of Germans to always prevent you from doing something that others consider bad behavior. For a lot of Germans, you didn’t have the right to leave a state or region, until the mid-1800s.
“It is a preoccupation of Germans to always prevent you from doing something that others consider bad behavior.”
I think this is where we are today as well.
Funny how a lot of people disappeared once those mere information collectors took them away ...
Difference without distinction. The Stasi regime is an accurate way of saying it. Just like in America today. A pervasive domestic spying agency wields the true power once it reaches a certain point.
Germans = Progressives
Progressives = fascists
pepsionice to PIF
The Stassi were merely collectors of information...taking reports....filing them.
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DesertRhino
Difference without distinction.
Are you sure there is no difference? Info collectors are not ‘disappearers’, you know - I watched them as they took several people who were never seen again. The were working hand in glove with the local KGB in my area cleaning up some ‘miscreants’. Seems like conflating live people with data and paper work to me. Burt then you’d have to have been there to see the difference I suppose. I’m sure the relatives and families of those disappeared will be lad that there is really no difference.
The old ladies taking pictures and recording movements from second story windows were information gatherers - ‘volunteers’ for the State actually.
Here in the USA we have a name for our version of the Stasi secret police, it’s called the FBI- DOJ. Clean the swamp!
A friend of my German father-in-law spent five years in a STASI prison for having the audacity to decline the two jobs offered his class the year he graduated - barber or baker.
He wanted to be a dentist. After he was included in a prisoner swap at the Glienicke bridge, he was able to finally realize his dream and become a dentist.
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