alt Hacker News> Western Europe is not an authoritarian dystopia by any measure
People are locked up in the Germany and the UK because they criticize the government, its politicians or their policies. I live in Germany.
> Western Europe is not an authoritarian dystopia by any measure
People are locked up in the Germany and the UK because they criticize the government, its politicians or their policies. I live in Germany.
Who is locked up for criticizing the government in Germany? You can be fined for insulting a government official, and I think it's a bad law and should be retracted, but a) insulting is not the same as criticizing and b) I've never heard of a single person locked up because of it - you'd basically need to deliberately refuse paying the fine for that