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> the German government saying: Look here, you got a bunch of criminals and terrorists (literally, with weapons) on your platform, you need to do something about it.

This sounds like a police matter, and should be a question that is asked to, not by, the government.

Not that any government understands that…

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That is exactly what has happened? The police will be aware of this, and the government need to decide what to do.... The first step is clearly to engage with the platform. Maybe its you that doesn't understand?

The steps are to investigate the criminal / terrorist activity, identify and arrest the culprits, and reach an appropriate outcome in the justice system. Engaging the platform in so far as the platform can legally assist the investigation. Closing (or publicly threatening to close) the platform is not helpful in any way.

Unfortunately, it turns out that it is not too rare that these people doing something in between prepping and planned terrorism are police or military.

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