I am blocking Germany and Austria

[Rozzy]

Without my glasses I misread the title as 'I am blocking Germany and Australia'.

Will the ban affect German and Austrian VPNs and TOR exit nodes?

 

[Pee Cola]

German logic:

Scat porn = OK
Mean words on the internet = SHUT IT DOWN

No wonder the Krauts lost the war. Fucking faggots (Deutsch Farmers excluded ofc).

 

[gata]

We'll not be shocked if a new hitler is made from these neo-weimar shitholes.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

It's a relief that Hitler lost or else Germany might have become an authoritarian hellhole, good thing that never came to pass!

 

[MoonState]

Will the ban affect German and Austrian VPNs and TOR exit nodes?

Of course

 

[Dread First]

What is it with European countries and being against free speech?

Americans are beholden to the rule of written law down to the very letter. This is why 2A proponents constantly say "shall not be infringed" because it's the exact wording on the 2nd Amendment to the USA's Constitution.

Europeans on the other hand are not accustomed to having proper codified law for centuries on end. Seriously, name me a country in Europe that stayed beholden to the word of written law for more than a handful of decades. The UK's lack of a constitution means that Parliament can erode freedoms as much as they wish, and the same applies in Europe too.

The USA's entire identity is fundamentally built around being beholden to no one else's law but its own. We won our independence from Europe, but we needed entirely new institutions that did the exact opposite of what the monarchist Europeans imposed. The USA's independence was formally recognised in 1783, but it wasn't until 1789 when all 13 former colonies ratified what we now know as the Constitution of the United States of America.

Europe, during this stretch of time, was in a huge state of upheaval (Britain losing America, France undergoing a Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars... you get my point). I'm not familiar with 19th century European history because I don't care enough about it, but my intuition leads me to believe that the scramble for imperial conquest definitely meant that they weren't concerned with ratifying constitutions to fundamentally redesign the way that they govern themselves.

The USA will abide by the worst partisanship, corruption, and political brinksmanship but that's 100% okay because that's what has emerged from the system that the USA itself creates. All domestic political crises in the USA are still crises nonetheless, but these are crises that operate squarely within the space that US law allows them to move around in.

Europe was never fundamentally designed to operate federally under these types of unions, economic zones, cooperation agreements, and the like. The nations of Europe are still that: nations, and they all want to operate as independent countries. The only thing they can all agree on is that they want to do business with each other and that all have vested interests in implementing censorship among their populaces.

Is it any wonder then, why the EU finds itself mired in political crisis after political crisis?

 

[ロボ﹏§¤r﹏h¶rœ]

Mr. Bond's stuff is super comfy, kinda reminds me of the mid/late 2000s and early 2010s parodies on YouTube like Rucka Rucka, only less juvenile and more /pol/-esque. Fairly well-produced and gets a good laugh out of me every once in awhile. I started listening to him precisely because I'd heard he'd been arrested.

As someone mentioned earlier, though, he wrote songs that flat-out idolize Tarrant and makes six gorillion jokes about about the lolocaust. There's no way he could get away with that living in Austria or Germany, even if it's parody. Obviously he shouldn't be in the position he's in, but that's the world we (or europoors, at least) live in.

I lost it at 'he's gotta remove a Kebab or a Jew and and he's gotta be streaming it live'.
What a legend.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

America has a lot of issues, but at least I can say what I want to say without fear of prison.

I hope any Kiwis in Germany know how to use a VPN.

For now. What do you think this "hate speech" and "hate crime" shit is building up to?

 

[Climaxing Sunset]

It's a relief that Hitler lost or else Germany might have become an authoritarian hellhole, good thing that never came to pass!

Hitler waged a war against the troons early on

 

[Scalar wave Physicist]

It really becomes obvious that there never was something similar like denazification after WWII for the communists of the SED right after the GDR ended. Sure, high names like Honecker or Mielke were imprisoned but the rest of the socialist apparatus was left to disapper into the german public. Nowadays we are seeing the results of this with pozz levels being off the charts.

Shits fucked.

 

[MugolEx]

We'll not be shocked if a new hitler is made from these neo-weimar shitholes.

Let's just hope this new Hitler wins this time.

 

[Rent Tin]

Just want to pop in and say I think this is a bad idea.

Unless there's some concern you have that I'm unaware of, this makes the site harder to access for the majority of German "people" that just read the site, not post or even have a log-in.

I'm sure you've considered it, but I think that putting the warning when you go to hit log-in from a German/Austrian IP may be the better solution if you want to protect those users, without making the site harder to access.

 

[MugolEx]

For now. What do you think this "hate speech" and "hate crime" shit is building up to?

It amazes me that we still have to ask this question after all this time. It should just be assumed with out saying anything.

 

[Null]

Having free access to information is a compelling point. I may block all POST requests instead (log ins, forum posts, search). There's a balance to be stuck between protecting users, enabling access, and what is technically feasible with my constraints.

 

[LeChampion1992]

It's unreliably bad and will reliably get worse.
I've talked about the hate speech laws inside the EU quite a few times here. The TL;DR is that it is all sourced in the WW2 and the Holocaust, and from there there were numerous escalatory steps, like the migration crisis, the rise of the populist and far right (who now owns Poland, Italy, Hungary, Denmark?, but in reality most East/Central EU is like this), and the COVID pandemic and "misinformation", as well as organizing against government restrictions.
There are multiple NGOs that lobby the EU to control speech more and more. EU does not have freedoms of speech like the US, not even in the East. Europe always controlled speech to some extent, with minor exceptions like France or England at times. Governments in the area hate chimpouts and love stability and cohesion. That can take all sorts of forms, from hate speech laws, Holocaust denial landing you in prison, to bans of undesirable personalities that might espouse destabilizing speech, like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor getting removed from Hungary, Poland and more - not because their ideas are alien in this area, but because the governments want to use that speech themselves, with proper euphemisms that allow for a measure of control of their struggles with the EU.
These laws are rarely applied however, especially in the East. But you might be made an example if you go too far as a celebrity.
In the West it's more acute and things can get nasty. Germany in special is living in terror of its past to this very day.
I assume Jersh will ban the whole of EU soon. After all, these laws are largely similar, from Bulgaria to Netherlands, the differences are in implementation, and that in the East the police simply doesn't give a fuck if you call people niggers online

Outside of the US where it's your god given right, and surprisingly the Third world doesn't mind you yelling nigger online. Most of the EU I've noticed seems to have perversely insane speech laws. Germany and Russia are somehow tied for insane and criminal speech laws.

The EU as a whole though is going down a dark path regardless. When you look at the UK you can increasingly see England and Wales to a lesser degree shrink more into the US sphere. Where the rest of the EU is splitting away.

 

[benutz]

German logic:

Scat porn = OK
Mean words on the internet = SHUT IT DOWN

No wonder the Krauts lost the war. Fucking faggots (Deutsch Farmers excluded ofc).

Eh buddy, if German people want to Scheisse over each other then who are you to object in a new and free land!

Talking of shitposts, I think that the OP by joosh might be right up there for no.1 of all time.

He is obviously emboldened and invigorated by his latest, how shall I say this? "Shit test"?

It's just one giant shit slinging contest but my money is on Joosh because, well, I don't know why, but it just is...

 

[DumDum Did Nothing Wrong]

what a bunch of sauerkrauts

 

[benutz]

Having free access to information is a compelling point. I may block all POST requests instead (log ins, forum posts, search). There's a balance to be stuck between protecting users, enabling access, and what is technically feasible with my constraints.

He's come out of his cage, his nose bloodied and battered, but boy, is he meaner than ever!

The boxheads will pay for this!

 

[Wine em Dine em 69 em]

 

[Claude Sigma]

As I do whenever I'm a country where my speech/readings could be construed as illegal, I recommend everyone to use ProtonVPN, it has a free version that allows you to connect through the US where speech is better protected and it's more convenient than using Tor.