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Summary
Germany accused Elon Musk of trying to influence its February 2024 election by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) through social media posts and a commentary in Welt am Sonntag.
Musk praised the AfD’s positions on regulation and taxes, calling them Germany’s saviors.
His actions sparked backlash, with opposition leader Friedrich Merz calling it unprecedented interference and SPD leader Saskia Esken vowing to resist influence from wealthy elites.
The Welt editor who published Musk’s piece resigned, while the AfD, polling second, remains shunned by mainstream parties.
Afaiu the AfD are considered Nazis, which just haven’t been banned yet.
While I do have issues with censorship I see necessary limits of freedom of speech and applying that to Nazis and their allies is very much within these limits in my opinion.
Inhumanity deserves no forum nor freedom of speech.
I’m not fully familiar with the AfD but if they were Nazis they’d already be illegal (being a Nazi is illegal in Germany and a few other countries). From what I know they’re just your usual far-right populist pro-russian anti-eu party, which sadly isn’t enough to stop them legally.
They are Nazis, plain and simple. Unfortunately, it’s not quite that easy banning an entire political party, even if they’re considered actively hostile towards the constitution. Well. I say “unfortunately” but it should of course be difficult. Democracy isn’t easy.
So maybe not the whole of AfD can be called Nazi, but at least one of their leaders according to https://www-hessenschau-de.translate.goog/politik/demonstranten-duerfen-afd-politiker-bjoern-hoecke-als-nazi-bezeichnen-v1,ermittlungen-hoecke-ist-ein-nazi-eingesellt-100.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp:
And as we all know, if there are 9 people and 1 Nazi sitting together at a table, then there are 10 Nazis sitting together at that table.
I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.
The due process to ban the AfD was already started, but won’t conclude before the election