• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    Yeah you should ban their media, books, speech & lock them up. That’ll teach them about fascism alright.

    On a more serious note, all this decision by Germany does is make groups like AfD stronger.

    • Helvetica@sh.itjust.works
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      “fight disinformation” =/= " ban their media, books, speech & lock them up"

      You really gave that strawman a good beating though.

    • Aielman15@lemmy.world
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      You can’t fight fascism on the marketplace of ideas. The moment you sit at the table to talk, they spring up and punch you in the face.

      Limiting circulation of fake news, holding those who spread it accountable, and forcing social networks to moderate their platform if they want to operate in the EU, should be the priority.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      Nobody’s doing this. You’re arguing against your own fantasies.

      They broke the law. You’re arguing for changing the constitution* to let the AfD continue practicing unconstitutional* politics, because you don’t want to make the AfD stronger?

      * “Grundgesetz” - close enough

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      You kinda have a point. If we fight fascism using fascist methods, we only empower it because suddenly they feel oppressed. But we do need to fight misinformation. But our polititians are so incredibly tech illiterate.

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        They started out feeling oppressed even when nobody did anything to them, based entirely on misinformation.