On 1/20/26 20:35, Sad Clouds wrote:
There are laws that deal with this and it may be illegal to spread: - Incitement - Hate speech - Foreign influence operations - Deliberate disinformation
And who decides what falls into such category ? The Politbüro, of course.
For example, in August 2024 a number of people in the UK were jailed for inciting violence on social media during the riots against asylum seekers.
If one's actually inciting violence against people, eg. openly calling for murder - that's not free speech anymore. Sure. But what about all the left extremists directly calling for violence and not being prosecuted ? I've got some personal experience with that (on the victim side). For example, since I've forked Xorg, I've frequently been personally attacked by certain groups (mostly from the Redhat/f.d.o ecosphere). Not long ago, some Debian maintainers openly accused *me* of planning to build "concentration camps" and put them into there. Not joking. And that's not actually new to me, eg. back in the "corona years", I belonged to that large group of people that many public figures openly demanded to be put into "camps" and forcefully jabbed for not playing along with the regime's (illegal) demands. My hometown's deputy major public demanded I (and my family) shall be arrested, just for publicly speaking out against the whole lockdown stuff. (and our local Antifa even wished to see us dead). And I also had been threatened to be gunned down by cops for nothing but having a walk on fresh air with my family.
There is a difference between critisising someone and inciting violence against them.
Sure. And such things need to be prosecuted consequently - no matter what political camp one's coming from. But only if there actually was a real crime - speaking out against the government or corporate media is not a crime.
If you believe the war in Ukraine is a myth, then you are more than welcome to visit Ukraine and observe for yourself the war crimes that Russia is committing there on daily basis.
War is always a bad thing, and we should do anything we can do to stop them - instead of prolonging them. And we should prosecute all the people responsible for the war breaking out in the first place - on both sides of the iron curtain. --mtx -- --- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering [email protected] -- +49-151-27565287
