> Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet
No you can criticize all you want. You just can’t insult them. Free speech is different in Germany than in the US. Insulting people isn’t covered by free speech.
Whether or not that is a good thing is up for debate, but Durov’s statement is plain wrong.
It's not like by going for an ad hominem you automatically win back the argument.
Is it so hard to verbally destroy a person's stance on something without insulting the person itself?
Has insulting anyone ever stopped anything?
> No one can say that your propaganda is too crude or low or brutal, or that it is not decent enough, for those are not the relevant criteria. Its purpose is not to be decent, or gentle, or weak, or modest; it is to be successful.
From https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54...
So just give up on trying to keep the powerful in check with laws?
No? Then what are you saying? Why not consider how this notion of banning "insult" is guaranteed to be abused?
Sarcasm aside, what kind of argument is that? And how is it related to what I'm saying?
Yeah, it scared the hell out of them: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-spent-1-7-millio...
... avoiding losing C-level executives could very quickly become an exercise in corporate cost avoidance, as the expenses of additional layers of security cost more than a change in corporate behavior... where paying more attention to customers reduces shareholder risk in executive turnover.
This belief could be characterized as "misguided optimism".
Plus is has 0 connection to any kind of discussion about "freeze peach".
Oh those snowflake politicians! When do they grow thick skin? /s