I kinda need to know what the thought-police deems illegal now so I can better weigh the risks of posting, anyone have good info on it?
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Depends a lot on which cop, attorney or judge you’re facing. “From the river to the sea” or the red triangle are generally things that will get you in trouble, but there have been cases were both were ruled to be constitutionally protected. At the same time, there have been significant repercussions from simply having worked for MSF in a hospital in Gaza and wanting to hold a talk about it. It’s extremely unpredictable.
Common things that will draw attention are showing anything that can be read as support of Hamas or Hezbollah, any comparison of Israel to the nazis, terms like genocide, apartheid or settler colonialism, being Palestinian or being a non-zionist Jewish person. Yes, this is racist and antisemitic as fuck, there is a giant anti-left bias, but it’s impossible to point you to any laws because the entire suppression of solidarity with Palestine is a process or bending, rewriting or ignoring existing rulings on what counts as protected speech. It’s the forefront of eroding freedom of expression and the press, freedom of assembly, acedemic freedom and other civil liberties in today’s politics here. You either fly below the radar or all bets are off.
Unless you are a CDU member saying something actually antisemitc while voicing full support for bulldozing every single building in Gaza. You are completely safe in that case.
ah shit. It was long time past time to burn this account anyway and take OPSEC more seriously. Also I heard something about linking RT being illegal, do you know anything about that?
When i’m saying “not flying below the radar”, i mostly mean stuff like being a public facing person who publishes under their real name or being at a protest, which is where most of the repression happens. If you’re a tenured professor and say “Palestine has a right to defend itself” in a lecture, you will probably find yourself in hot water. If you post
pseudonymously, the only way that will bite you in the ass is if your hexbear account gets doxxed. If you think that is a serious risk, you obviously should delete it.Also I heard something about linking RT being illegal, do you know anything about that?
This is an EU-wide ruling, but it is about hosting, it’s fairly unlikely that linking counts. There’s probably 20 million chuds linking to RT mirrors on facebook and telegram, i don’t see why they’d come after you for this.
Yeah I have posted tidbits here and there over the years that might accumulate. Maybe this italian 12 year old balding female pastry chef with a tattoo of a heart on his right thigh should clean up.
The banner picture in your profile is already a strong start.
You say that, but I’m based in Germany and had stickers of this art when I was kettled and searched by police on a 1 May demonstration, and I was allowed to keep them (actually being caught in the act of stickering would have been an offence). To answer the OP, the main slogan that has faced criminalisation is “from the river to the sea”. Aside from that and explicitly expressing support to proscribed organisations, there’s not too much that will land you in serious trouble, though there’s no consistent standard and the courts decide on things quite unpredictably for now. Last year there were deportation orders for foreigners on the basis of occupying a university building, rather than a certain slogan.
Oh shit you’re right, that sucks
