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Oct 15·edited Oct 15Liked by Robert Kogon

The observation about the English-language tweets is fascinating.

Different from your main points, but the other problem with X I have observed is that the algorithms and "punishment/reward" systems tend to "train" real humans with larger accounts into speaking a certain way. Hard to describe without naming individuals - which I don't want to do - but it's very alarming and (I think) has made some people sound like bots.

I notice it more with females than with males, which could be because I'm female. :)

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Absolutely. It’s the most disheartening thing about algorithmic censorship. And I notice it equally with both!

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If you will not name individuals, then you are not going to have a target and you will miss whatever it is that you profess to want changed.

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remarkable also, that former Soviet countries are now among the free speech champions. Slovenia, Slovakia, and of course a few smaller ones like Malta and Cyprus. Also note worthy that France is second in line. Two countries NOT to immigrate to!

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Currently there are plenty of other more significant reasons not to want to live in the two states you mention.

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The US retains a substantial military presence in Germany: the bias to suppression of English tweets may reflect that.

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Oct 16·edited Oct 16

When EU, as a creation, is far from being an economic union as it is claimed, but is the faithful copy of the Soviet Union where instead of tanks, money is used, nothing should surprise us.

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Eugyppius writes with scathing satire about the state of things in Germany. Latest example 'BREAKING URGENT EMERGENCY: Revellers in a tent north of Frankfurt caught singing "Foreigners Out" to club music, German democracy on life support'

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/breaking-urgent-emergency-revellers

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Not to mention Germany's appalling treatment of lawyer Reiner Fuellmich, whom they kidnapped in Mexico and have incarcerated ever since without grounds. This case is more than redolent of Germany's tyrannical past.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/reiner-fuellmich-persecution-prison%e2%80%a8/5870070

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/german-lawyer-dr-reiner-fuellmichs

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Oct 16·edited Oct 16

An unprecedented ruling by a Constitutional Court happend here:

https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-election-russia-eu-nato-ballot-diana-sosoaca-ccr/

not many agree with her style, otherwise very colorful, but the fact that there are always ways and people who abuse of power to limit speech and debates on certain topics is downright scary and a clear feature of totalitarian regimes.

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Yes, I've heard. And, yes, shocking. But how is Diana Șoșoacă supposed to be anti-Semitic?? Anti-EU, anti-NATO. Of course. Is this just defamatory spin by Politico. Given the source, it wouldn't surprise me...

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Oct 16Liked by Robert Kogon

Politico took the message from the motivation of the constitutional court, which is very debatable, but it is forbidden to do so, because there are no legal defenses.

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The utter debasement and humiliation of the German people following two banker-manufactured world wars is a tragedy to behold.

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You must be pretty messed up to wite "Note that X, the supposed “free speech platform”, provides information on platform users to the governments of EU member states in connection with not just illegal speech — and, yes, national legislation in EU countries includes many “speech crimes” — but also legal speech that is deemed “harmful”."

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Who is Germany This generalization is like saying that all Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor so get rid of them all. It just agitates without a solution because there is no target. Likewise, all Jews do not support Zionism and Israels genocide. If one has mice in the house, a complaint about animals is not going to lead to a proper solution that does not hurt the innocent.

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