Hi Enrico, Could political discussions be moved to relevant mailing lists, please.
This discussion might be off-topic for netbsd-users Thanks Carsten > On 17. Feb 2026, at 14:10, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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
