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Arresting CEO Of Messaging App With 1 Billion Users Ramps Up Western Governments’ War On Speech
The Federalist ^ | AUGUST 28, 2024 | JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON

Posted on 08/28/2024 9:23:48 AM PDT by Kazan

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To: Bob Wills is still the king

How so? Facts show that the west is a soviet republic.


21 posted on 08/28/2024 12:42:32 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Kazan
There is no freedom of expression in Europe - and it's our fault.

When we wrote the Grundgesetz for West Germany in 1948-49, we modeled their civil liberties after ours - with one exception. That exception was that the Basic Law could not be changed by people voting or by lawmakers. And a special court was created with the unilateral power to ban speech, writing, singing, images, constitutional amendments, political figures and political parties, or anything that could return the NSDAP to power.

That was then. In 1948 there were millions of adult Germans who had voted the NSDAP into power, and who (plausibly) would do it again if allowed unrestricted civil liberties.

When East Germany was absorbed into West Germany, länder were required to subscribe to the Basic Law.

So far, so good.

Except now is now. The last person who could have legally joined the NSDAP on May 7, 1945 is now 97 years old.

But, like any government function, the special court has expanded its powers to attack "misinformation" and "hate speech", and as the supply of actual Nazis falls to zero, the demand for Nazis to repress has never been stronger.

Virtually all European states have adopted the powers conferred on the West German state in 1948-49, and don't doubt for a second that this poor Telegram guy is a target for that reason - and if they get him, Elon Musk, RFK jr, and our next President will all be attacked this way.

And many American liberals including high-achieving legal scholars are pushing "hate speech" and "misinformation" exceptions to our First Amendment. And if things break the wrong way, you can bet they will get those exceptions.

22 posted on 08/28/2024 1:10:33 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: metmom

‘Unleashed’ is the right word. They will use “emergencies” as the excuse to rule and control us.

It Trump wins he needs to quickly dismantle the out-of-control and unaccountable administrative apparatus that is threatening our freedom. My fear is that MANY Republicans in congress will resist this.


23 posted on 08/28/2024 2:18:59 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Jim Noble

The NSDAP got rid of Weimar Germany.


24 posted on 08/28/2024 2:43:06 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears

“ The NSDAP got rid of Weimar Germany.”

Indeed they did.


25 posted on 08/28/2024 2:57:27 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Kazan

bfl


26 posted on 08/28/2024 3:28:41 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦.....The Democratic Party ISN'T...)
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To: Kazan

The men behind the curtain?


Central Banks: The use of Sovergien Immunities & Secrecy to Engineer a Global Coup (Catherine Austin Fitts, Bevrijding van Bedrog, Oct 2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0YW81RA26I

Bank of International Settlement


27 posted on 08/28/2024 8:22:33 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Kazan

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


28 posted on 08/28/2024 9:05:30 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me." )
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To: Kazan

We’ve become the Soviets.


29 posted on 08/28/2024 9:29:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Liz

Right now Freedom of Speech is the only issue that matters.


30 posted on 08/28/2024 9:30:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kazan

” Indeed, it’s the prospect of accountability that sets the bureaucratic regime against the people, and rightly sees them as a real threat.”

📌


31 posted on 08/28/2024 9:36:04 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Kazan

“As Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in his recent speech endorsing former President Donald Trump, “governments and oppressors don’t censor lies, they don’t fear lies. They fear the truth, and that’s what they censor.”

📌


32 posted on 08/28/2024 9:36:46 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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