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minus-squareAlsephina@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·9 months agoL take. AES countries which are actual democracies do the same thing. Though of course, banning it isn’t gonna go anywhere for Germany unless they tackle the root cause of capitalism.
minus-squareCascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoI think they’re saying that liberal “democracies”, as soon as they need to, will use the exact same censorship that they claim “autocracies” use, and which not using is the entire source of their supposed moral superiority.
L take. AES countries which are actual democracies do the same thing.
Though of course, banning it isn’t gonna go anywhere for Germany unless they tackle the root cause of capitalism.
I think they’re saying that liberal “democracies”, as soon as they need to, will use the exact same censorship that they claim “autocracies” use, and which not using is the entire source of their supposed moral superiority.