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In the 1950s, the Reverend Ian Paisley would organise rallies in the streets of Belfast and when speaking at those rallies, read out the addresses of Catholic homes and businesses on those streets. The crowd would then attack those homes and businesses.
I don't know the exact context or what was said, but I know one thing the words didn't attack somebody. People attacked people and property.
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That isn't really what we perceive (at least if educated). We see that Free Speech is not an absolute right, but is secondary to the most important right which for Germans is Human Dignity. It might be foreign to you because your constitution and history doesn't put the same value on it than our history taught us.
I'm not American but I similarly don't care for the meek subservience to the government which characterizes European attitude on this. Human dignity is not foreign to me at all, I just don't believe a life where the state protects your feelings from words, and that dictates what you may and may not talk about is not a dignified one.
Your argument is similar to saying that we shouldn't have rules when driving cars. "Why life cannot be dignified if I have to observe stop signs."
In every are of life there are balances to be struck. I am sure your country has rules for slandering individuals (because most have). What's the difference to also having rules against slandering entire people?
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> I don't think children should be given copies Disingenuous framing. Book bans remove books from school libraries. A book sitting on a shelf is not giving a book to someone. > of Mein Kampf or Camp of Saints Why not? Genuinely, why not? What will happen if children have access to words on a printed page? Most of them have access to a supercomputer in their pocket. To make my stance clear in case it’s not: there is n…
> there is no such thing as “age appropriate literature.” Would you be comfortable with a 5 year old reading "Morning Glory, Milking Farm"?
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In the 1950s, the Reverend Ian Paisley would organise rallies in the streets of Belfast and when speaking at those rallies, read out the addresses of Catholic homes and businesses on those streets. The crowd would then attack those homes and businesses.
I don't know the exact context or what was said, but I know one thing the words didn't attack somebody. People attacked people and property.
People were sentenced to death at Nuremberg for giving orders, written and spoken.
It's well established in every legal jurisdiction that individuals are responsible for the words they use.
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> Trade and tarriff relief are an option still Are they though? Trump tried to use them to get ownership of Greenland a few weeks ago and just gave up. Then he tried to bully Canada again, and also gave up again. I think at this point nobody takes his offers of relief or threats seriously anymore, since any deal you make can be invalidated a couple weeks later.
There's a huge range of stuff way below trying to annex Greenland or the strong arming he tried to use against Greenland. This thread was talking about how the US could get countries to not block their free anti-censorship VPN not territory annexation. It's a way smaller ask, comparing them borders on absurd.
I am saying we have seen multiple instances where countries have stopped considering Trump's deals, cause they cannot be relied on.
Maybe the EU can open a book portal for the US. https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/
The banned books are things like "All Boys Aren't Blue", a book which describes incestuous child rape and provides step by step instructions for anal sex. If you think that book belongs in public schools the FBI should have a look at your computer.
Maybe the EU can open a book portal for the US. https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/
The whole book banning thing is a little weird in 2026, IMO. It's exciting to think about, we all liked Fahrenheit 451, but a book not being bought for elementary schools doesn't really make it "banned" IMO. There are a lot of books which probably shouldn't be in schools. I don't think children should be given copies of Mein Kampf or Camp of Saints, nor the random dark fantasy novels which are so popular today. It fe…
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Anyone who wants to trade in USD. Protection of maritime trade routes. Nuclear shield. Netflix, YouTube, Nvidia, OpenAI, Amazon.
What sort of soft power do you imagine Netflix represents? It exists but it's not leverage.
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The banned books are things like "All Boys Aren't Blue", a book which describes incestuous child rape and provides step by step instructions for anal sex. If you think that book belongs in public schools the FBI should have a look at your computer.
It describes incestuous child rape, because the author describes his experience of being raped. Victims speaking about their abuse, now that is one step too far and needs to be censored.