The frontman of British punk rap band Bob Vylan was denied entry to Germany, detained at the Berlin airport, and ultimately deported to the United Kingdom last month due to his pro-Palestine statements.
German federal police justified deporting the band’s vocalist on June 15, referencing a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2025 where Bob Vylan led a chant of “Death, death to the IDF,” or the Israel Defense Forces.
A police file on Robinson-Foster obtained by The Intercept alleges that he disseminated antisemitic narratives and Hamas propaganda that could “radicalise certain segments of the [German] population” and serve as “ideological justification” for terrorist groups or individuals. It also says that Robinson-Foster poses a threat to Germany’s public security and public order. Allowing him into the country would cause “considerable reputational damage” by creating the impression that Germany was making “no effort to prevent the spread of the propagated antisemitism and the associated calls to violence.”
Well yeah. When you outlaw dissent within a country and train people to never go against the government. Naturally the ones who stand up against it are going to be people from outside that country. In other words, people who are brainwashed to accept their country don’t see the bad things their country does, as bad. That’s why freedom of speech and freedom of opinion is important, and why people fight for it. When the government steps in to control speech and control narratives about themselves, they can weaponize that to force narratives about themselves and make people accept it or else. Germany already does this shit.
I have a lot of problems with our current government but you make it sound as if our current government was working towards a dictatorship. That would be a wild take…
Dissent is not outlawed, as long as you voice your opinion in a sane manner, e.g. don’t chant for the death of other people.
A lot of people would agree that it kind of is, or has maybe even gotten there. Just because patriotism blinds you to what’s in front of you doesn’t mean it isn’t true. People are right to criticize this aspect of Germany’s government. It’s Orwellian as fuck!
Which is up to the discretion of the government who enforces it… You can’t challenge the enforcement of the government, it’s called resisting arrest. If you don’t see how them deciding what can and can’t be said is a problem it just shows what a brainwashed sheep you are.
Hey @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com found a vote manipulation account here. Probably an alt of someone banned recently @TipsyDragon@lemmy.world no post history at all and very suspicious favoritism towards @valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de.