Germany could shut down Telegram if the messenger service popular with far-right groups and people opposed to pandemic-related restrictions continues to violate German law, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in remarks published on Wednesday.
Widespread? Afaik the only thing that was banned was a couple of 1 to many thousand channels that spread neo nazi propaganda and anti vax content. Many are still up of course.
It’s not ok for the government to limit what you can say.
What about threats of violence?
That’s an easy and obvious case to make a small exception for. But not a good reason for this kind of widespread censorship.
Widespread? Afaik the only thing that was banned was a couple of 1 to many thousand channels that spread neo nazi propaganda and anti vax content. Many are still up of course.
I don’t think it’s effective to do this btw.