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German police conduct raids against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online (apnews.com)
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In Germany, sweeping slurs against women can be punishable as incitement to hatred.

Communications that are considered illegal include posts in which women are slandered and insulted in a sexualized manner, or publicly encouraged to send nude photos. The authorities also flagged posts that advocated rape or sexual assault or that distributed videos of torture or killing.

The raids concentrated on suspects who had set their sights on well-known women like female politicians

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What are you trying to say? I can't get past the internal contradictions of this statement ......

Yes, china does moderate the speech of it's citizens. In theory this is part of the state's duty to protect the cohesiveness of their political and cultural hierarchy. This is fairly standard in any socialized nation that's confronting reactionary influence.

In this way, wouldn't Germany utilizing the state's power to protect it's vulnerable populations from reactionary culture wars be a win in the eyes of leftist?

Yes we can all laugh at the irony of the situation, but it seems most people commenting are taking a very libertarian attitude for the sake of misogyny.

[–] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a gap between what's good for a country and what Western countries claim is good for a country. I don't think OP was making a claim either way, just that there's clearly a gap and Germany is a hypocrite.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

There's a gap between what's good for a country and what Western countries claim is good for a country.

Right..... But western countries tend to be more liberal with protecting hate speech. Their usual claim for what's good for the country is to allow reactionary speech to dominate the public forum.

Limiting hate speech and reactionary calls to violence isn't exactly what the west is known for. So they are progressing the status quo towards collectivism and away from libertarian values.

How is this bad under the scope of leftism?

Also, even if you don't think op was making a statement, there are plenty of people here echoing libertarian ideology. Seems strange that the only time people here fear the consolidation of state power is when it is aimed at misogyny.