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mlh496yesterday at 10:09 PM5 repliesview on HN

Sad that western Europe is pushing so hard for limits to free speech & privacy. I'm not surprised given their history, but it's sad nonetheless.


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carlm42today at 12:07 AM

Sad that the United States are pushing so hard to encourage the propagation of propaganda & lies. I'm not surprised given their history, but it's sad nonetheless.

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sublimefiretoday at 12:11 AM

What limits? You can do pretty much what you want but make sure you can defend yourself in the court. I feel there is a bit of a disconnect in terms where people get the news where in US you kind of expect biggest news providers to be biassed, eg Fox, hence reliance on social media. In Europe gov media is quite strong and objective, and the idea that it restricts something is odd. A great example is the banning of RT, they lost licenses IMO in multiple countries, but the agency was spreading a lot of lies. IMO what we all want is objective news reporting.

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codethieftoday at 1:19 AM

> Sad that western Europe is pushing so hard for limits to […] privacy

Uh what? :-)

touweryesterday at 11:06 PM

It's not sad. It's smart to ban hate speech, blatant lies and things like that. We know, we had the Nazis. Seems the US still has to learn a lesson or two, considering the current political situation. Hope it will not be as bad

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NewJazztoday at 12:29 AM

It's so sad US elites are so desperate for mindshare that they have to resort to dumping (mis)information on everyone else, everywhere.