Angela Merkel attacks Twitter over Trump ban

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27 points·mrleiter··8 comments

Good for her! Europeans generally don't have the same commitment to free speech as Americans do, but even Merkel sees this as going down the wrong path.

Impeach and remove Trump? By all means!

Turn off his Twitter, email, water, gas? No.

What she actually says is that what you should be able to say should be defined by law and not dictated by private companies. So it's more like if the government doesn't like what you say.

Thanks -- I was not able to read the actual article.

I am on the same page as her. In the US we have not had the slightest problem with the government censoring us; that has all befallen us thanks to companies being bullied by social activists, perhaps especially by their own employees.

I mean it's a weird thing to say either which way you look at it. Although the only reason I have a preference for social stigma and private companies dictating "correct thought" is that you don't face heavy fines or go to jail because a private company say's you broke their rules.

> Good for her! Europeans generally don't have the same commitment to free speech as Americans do

Pretty sure that's American exceptionalism, and not actually true.

I'm French and I see a lot of the discourse in both countries and I really don't agree that the US is more committed than us to free speech.

I can deny the Holocaust if I'm stupid enough to do it.

And if I were a schoolteacher I could wear a cross around my neck. Granted, that's on the border between free speech and religious liberty, but they are very much intertwined in any case.

Paywalled :(

The same story as reported by the AP: https://apnews.com/article/merkel-trump-twitter-problematic-...

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