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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by hutzlibu »

duozerk wrote: post #44
0xDEF wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Looking into it you appear to be right, thanks; that single study is almost exclusively the single source of all similar articles, too. Admittedly I don't use twitter, so I don't have first hand experience in this. It's still pretty obvious that there is a propaganda effort from NATO as well, and one that seems to work a lot more than Russia's on western audiences. > There are literally viral tweets blaming Ukraine f…

"There are literally viral tweets blaming Ukraine for creating COVID-19.

lmao that's so insane it almost sounds like a bit "

Ah well, people exposed to propaganda can believe all kinds of weird stuff. For example many (43%!) US people believed, that Hussein was responsible for 9/11:

    "Do you think Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was directly involved in planning, financing, or carrying out the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001?"

    September 2003 responses: 47% Yes"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_con...

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by gmerc »

hgadx wrote: post #41
0xDEF wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Danish person who has been to Eastern Germany (outside Berlin) I'm really not surprised by the rise of the AfD. It's common to see people on social media praise Germans for de-Nazification and criticize the Japanese for not confronting their past in the same way. Those people have clearly not interacted with Eastern Germans. In Eastern Germany the underlying neuroticism, persecution complex, and willingness to b…

This is completely removed from reality. The right wing movements in Europe started around 2000 in Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and France. Germany was way behind . In Germany the AfD won voters after Merkel let in too many refugees in 2015 against the will of many CDU voters. The AfD is probably less extreme than MAGA and most European counterparts, including Scandinavian ones. But it is always easy to pile on Ge…

Please you are whitewashing history. Hoyerswerda gruesst. This shit was happening already in the 90s right after reunification and in the context of OP - it’s not surprising at all, eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by _kbh_ »

duozerk wrote: post #44
0xDEF wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Looking into it you appear to be right, thanks; that single study is almost exclusively the single source of all similar articles, too. Admittedly I don't use twitter, so I don't have first hand experience in this. It's still pretty obvious that there is a propaganda effort from NATO as well, and one that seems to work a lot more than Russia's on western audiences. > There are literally viral tweets blaming Ukraine f…

> lmao that's so insane it almost sounds like a bit

It sounds like a bit but the Russians have some wild state based propaganda stuff like that Ukraine was using mutant super soldiers, that Ukraine had black magic witch battalions and that Ukraine was breading pigeons that where modified to spread viruses to kill Russians.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by RobotToaster »

circuit10 wrote: post #48
RobotToaster wrote: post #3

China has the great firewall, the UK has Hadrian's firewall, I guess this is the Berlin firewall.

As someone from the UK I’ve never seen anything blocked on my home Internet (except actual scam sites but you can turn that off, and yes that’s from my ISP and not the browser) My mobile data does incorrectly flag some things as 18+ though

Plenty of high seas sites are blocked.

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by hutzlibu »

timeon wrote: post #54
hutzlibu wrote: post #19

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And NATO or ukrainian propaganda? Because that is also a thing, even though not as blatant. The problem with banning information, is that it is easy to abuse this and it creates a martyr effect. I rather would like people be able to judge information by themself and not decide for them.

NATO or Ukraine are not invading any European country.

NATO member Turkey is regulary doing raids in Syria and they also annected territory there. And they did not really take it from evil Assad, but from the kurds.

And when 47% of americans believed, that Hussein was responsible for 9/11, than this is also the result of propaganda to create support for a illegal war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_con...

Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany

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Post by nbryc »

gmerc wrote: post #62
hgadx wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is completely removed from reality. The right wing movements in Europe started around 2000 in Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and France. Germany was way behind . In Germany the AfD won voters after Merkel let in too many refugees in 2015 against the will of many CDU voters. The AfD is probably less extreme than MAGA and most European counterparts, including Scandinavian ones. But it is always easy to pile on Ge…

Please you are whitewashing history. Hoyerswerda gruesst. This shit was happening already in the 90s right after reunification and in the context of OP - it’s not surprising at all, eastern germany had a very different take on denazificaiton.

Hoyerswerda was in 1991, please look at the election results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_German_federal_election

No radical party was of any significance. If they were all Nazis, why didn't the NPD have 20%?

You are the one who rewrites history.

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