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Martin Sellner, a prominent European far-right figure, was stopped from giving a speech at an event in Switzerland and thrown out of the region, Aargau, where it was taking place.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/eFnE9

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Dangerous as this is, at least someone’s doing something about the swell of idiocy. I only had to read as far as the definition of “remigration” to know this guy needs to be denied any and every platform.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Absolute free speech is for absolute cavemen. It's 2024