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by ben_w 839 days ago
Do you sincerely not understand that planning to break the law is itself illegal? That is literally where we get the meaning of the word "conspire" — to make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act, from latin "to breathe along with".

Likewise, second link was about someone getting arrested.

And now I'm remembering Sideshow Bob: "Imprisoned for a crime I didn't even commit. Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry, do they?" — that's what you sound like.
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nemo44x 839 days ago
Which laws were broke? A political group had a conversation regarding policy and most attendees agreed it wouldn’t be possible with acquiring more democratically elected power. And even then it may not be viable. There’s nothing wrong with that.

The other link is a guy doing Nazi things which is fine in most places although Germany has state controlled speech so it was problematic. But it’s just speech.

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ben_w 838 days ago
Investigations are ongoing, one of the formal accusations is "high treason". You shouldn't expect them to be hasty with this, look how long the investigations of Trump are taking.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/rechtes-treffen-in-pots...

> But it’s just speech.

The reason I value freedom of speech, the reason it's even important to protect it, is that there's no "just" about it. All we are as a milieu, personally and globally, is from communication, from sharing ideas rather than reinventing things from scratch ourselves.

Martin Luther and Martin Luther King changed the world for the better with "'just' speech" — but it was also "'just' speech" that convinced people to give actual literal Hitler and Pol Pot any power, or even the means to spread their merely human voices more widely and control an entire nation.

There's no "just" when it comes to speech. It's what sets us apart from most other animals. It's our superpower… well, that and being able to throw things both hard and accurately. Our two main superpowers…

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nemo44x 837 days ago
> Martin Luther and Martin Luther King changed the world for the better with "'just' speech

That’s your opinion. Hitler and Pol Pot had tons of speech against them which ended them. Point being the truth wins in the end. You can’t regulate it because no one knows jack.

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