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Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

No, I’m not saying that.

It’s just sometimes easy to smudge proper protesters with criminal groups, and historically that has happened a fair bit.

Like people can make a new organisation and try to step away from the criminal one, but also what’s to prevent the criminal element from joining them as well, and then the same justification can be used to ban that group and on and on and on.

So honestly defining the point at which it could be argued to be suppression of political ideas is very hard to pinpoint, imo.

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