If you live close to the #Munich area, save the date! On 3 October we'll welcome everyone to the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory in Garching, as part of the Open House Day in the Garching campus.
After the disaster of the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic of #Germany came up with the concept of the "Wehrhafte Demokratie" - a "democracy that can defend itself". Fundamental to this concept is that people, groups, and organizations who want to overthrow the basic democratic order should _not_ get a "level playing field".
So while I can understand people worried about any kind of #censorship , I think by this standard this action is justifiable. Brazil went through an attempted coup, and X - and Elon #Musk - were instrumental in aiding the coupists.
And by now Elon Musk has established a clear pattern of "wanting to overthrow the democratic order" - _any_ democratic order. Thus, it is valid if Brazil wants to restrict his speech.
I see this as part of the "Paradox of Tolerance" - tolerating the intolerant …
After the disaster of the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic of #Germany came up with the concept of the "Wehrhafte Demokratie" - a "democracy that can defend itself". Fundamental to this concept is that people, groups, and organizations who want to overthrow the basic democratic order should _not_ get a "level playing field".
So while I can understand people worried about any kind of #censorship , I think by this standard this action is justifiable. Brazil went through an attempted coup, and X - and Elon #Musk - were instrumental in aiding the coupists.
And by now Elon Musk has established a clear pattern of "wanting to overthrow the democratic order" - _any_ democratic order. Thus, it is valid if Brazil wants to restrict his speech.
I see this as part of the "Paradox of Tolerance" - tolerating the intolerant will result in less tolerance. And tolerance, like freedom of speech, are social contracts. If you break the social contract - as Elon Musk has - then there should be consequences.
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The new German trans ID law has come into effect yesterday! 🥳🏳️⚧️🥳🏳️⚧️🥳🏳️
You can now (start the process to) legally self declare your gender, without needing all that BS medical gatekeeping (there used to be a surgery requirement!)
#Germany announces to vote NO in the EU council on the *current* #chatcontrol proposal. I guess that the vote will be removed from the agenda tomorrow, to avoid bad optics. But it’ll also come back soon enough, with some minor changes. That’s what my experience with Brussels has taught me.