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Ministry of Truth

Dennis

It would be amusing if that wouldn’t be so serious. Our German government plans to create a center to fight “disinformation” online ahead of next year’s elections. Looks like our government is scared shitless that they might not be re-elected. If they can’t control citizens anymore with their propaganda TV channels and radio stations thanks to the internet, they now have to change the strategy and go one step further. Now they want to control information’s in the web or on social media channels. I always said it, and I stick with it, the real extremists do already govern our … Continue reading Ministry of Truth

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Does Merkel Know The Difference Between Meaningful Critique And Hate Speech?

Dennis

This is not a news, Facebook has been criticized by German politicians for not censoring Facebook comments, or for not giving the right tools to censor comments on the own fan pages at Facebook. Currently all known German politicians battle with the ever-increasing amount of negative comments on their pages, and while it’s true, you can find hate speech, the majority of the comments are not hateful but written by people with justified worries and question. When Merkel talked with Zuckerberg, she probably didn’t ask for better moderation tools on Facebook pages to be able to delete the hate speech … Continue reading Does Merkel Know The Difference Between Meaningful Critique And Hate Speech?