#germany

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Regarding banning :

After the disaster of the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic of 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 , I think by this standard this action is justifiable. Brazil went through an attempted coup, and X - and Elon - 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" …

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The first large burning came on 6 May 1933. The German Student Union made an organised attack on Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (roughly: Institute of Sex Research). Its library and archives of around 20,000 books and journals were publicly hauled out and burned in the street. Its collection included unique works on intersexuality, homosexuality and transgender topics. 1/2

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