Comment by blacksmith_tb
1 day ago
Does that say Camus had his phone seized? He was denied being allowed to come and speak, not to visit as a journalist, which also strikes me a fairly different case (whatever you think of his positions, or whether they should be debated or silenced). It seems unlikely to me that a journalist who'd written flattering things about the AFD would be treated so badly trying to visit Germany?
> Does that say Camus had his phone seized?
I'm confused where this question is coming from. Do cases have to be exactly the same to draw parallels?
> It seems unlikely to me that a journalist who'd written flattering things about the AFD would be treated so badly trying to visit Germany?
Germany is a bad example, as they're deporting and planning to even revoke citizenship based on speech:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/germany-orders-depo...
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-...
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-could-withdraw-citizenship-due...
Complicated thing: had a certain Austrian who complained about the German government silencing him instead been deported and forbidden to return after his prison sentence, the world might have been a very different place.