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Berlin says Elon Musk is trying to exert influence over German election
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As much as I'd love to see this happen: For which legal reason?
The EU has strict content moderation laws that Twitter currently violates, which Elon explicitly ignores. The EU could take actions based on the same principles that Brazil did.
Dunno about legalese, but maybe along the lines of election interference?
I doubt it's election interference when he simply posts his opinion online, if that were to get censored, as much as I'd like to censor Musk, I'd be deeply worried about what else could be censored (especially when the AfD is in power)
Afaiu the AfD are considered Nazis, which just haven't been banned yet.
While I do have issues with censorship I see necessary limits of freedom of speech and applying that to Nazis and their allies is very much within these limits in my opinion.
Inhumanity deserves no forum nor freedom of speech.
I'm not fully familiar with the AfD but if they were Nazis they'd already be illegal (being a Nazi is illegal in Germany and a few other countries). From what I know they're just your usual far-right populist pro-russian anti-eu party, which sadly isn't enough to stop them legally.
They are Nazis, plain and simple. Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy banning an entire political party, even if they're considered actively hostile towards the constitution. Well. I say "unfortunately" but it should of course be difficult. Democracy isn't easy.
So maybe not the whole of AfD can be called Nazi, but at least one of their leaders according to https://www-hessenschau-de.translate.goog/politik/demonstranten-duerfen-afd-politiker-bjoern-hoecke-als-nazi-bezeichnen-v1,ermittlungen-hoecke-ist-ein-nazi-eingesellt-100.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp:
And as we all know, if there are 9 people and 1 Nazi sitting together at a table, then there are 10 Nazis sitting together at that table.
I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.
The due process to ban the AfD was already started, but won't conclude before the election