Imagine this entire scene would not have happened if his uni wasnt such a group of clowns. No one would have known him, no one would have cared
Hes a bad guy. But i doubt this is a positive development for free speech.
Wish that every country deals with their far-righters like this, good for Belgium 💪
“Dries Van Langenhove, a political activist and leader of a Flemish-nationalist youth movement called Schild & Vrienden, was convicted of inciting violence and denying the Holocaust, the Ghent criminal court ruled Tuesday morning.”
I will get down voted to hell again by redditors :
Inciting violence should obviously get you in prison.
But denying holocaust ? I have no doubt it happened (please don’t put me in jail), but I don’t think anyone should be put in prison if he says stupid shit.
I can only see that making holocaust deniers more relevant.
We are still lacking a lot of freedom of speech in Europe, I don’t like taking USA has a model, but that’s definitely an area where they can teach us a lesson.
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Disgusting person, but I’m sad to see how many people celebrate him being jailed.
Instead of winning over him in the marketplace of free ideas, he’s silenced and martyred. Id prefer commies, Nazis, liberals, greens, conservatives, reactionaries, socialists, anarchists etc all get a chance to speak. That doesn’t mean you have to platform them. But to legally punish them for wrong think, means Belgium is no longer a free society.
“prodigy”
All the wannabes crying in the comments, if he represents your views, please act on them and follow your leader to the big house, safe from the fAr LeFt
>The leader of Vlaams Belang, Tom Van Grieken, hit out at the ruling, saying “Belgian justice is rotten through and through … From Day 1, this has been a political trial.”
Right wing idiots are surprised it’s a crime to incite violence and deny the Holocaust.
Europe lefties locking up opponents putin would be proud
It’s not like a news from Russia, no really, this is different.
Yes Really.
Now think twice before you post something on the internet. The woke Gestapo is watching.
While happy to see this, I hope politicians are trying to understand how people like these are finding support.
I hope the sentence wasn’t given on his speeches but rather based on that gun love etc.
“Flanders’ far right …”. In all the southern half of the country, the French-speaking part, he has no voice nor influence nor relevance.
Based on Dutch language reporting the politico headline is wrong. He’s not convicted for inciting violence, he’s convicted of inciting racism and negationism. “(het aanzetten tot) racisme en negationisme”. [This Flemish analysis was more insightful to me.](https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20240312_93907830)
Based on memes and comments made on a private discord server, which the court says are still deemed public in the eyes of the law.
If you like free speech I don’t think you should be cheering for this ruling, despicable as van Langenhove might be.
He’s a clown, cries about “left-wing” lies in the news but lies constantly about “facts”
He’s not only getting jail time for his right wing memes, it’s way more than that but “oh no, Elon please i’m getting jail time for mah memes :((((”
Dries VLH is a parasite and an awful human being.
Why is it the only time we’re in world news it’s only the bad stuff. How about Obamna coming to our tech festival? Everyone likes ombama right?
Edit: apparently people dont like obama
This guy is convicted for denying the holocaust and spreading messages of white supremacy. I’m glad he’s getting punished
Are people really applauding people being send to jail for things said online? From what I gather it wasn’t even himself who said anything but other people in a discord he was also in?
Should I be worried the police will arrive at my door because someone said something racist in one of the discord channels I am in???
More than anything I am worried about the atmosphere here of overwhelming support. I feel like I live in a different world.
But muh China and Russia
Here before the inevitable far-right apologists onslaught 😀
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Imagine this entire scene would not have happened if his uni wasnt such a group of clowns. No one would have known him, no one would have cared
Hes a bad guy. But i doubt this is a positive development for free speech.
Wish that every country deals with their far-righters like this, good for Belgium 💪
“Dries Van Langenhove, a political activist and leader of a Flemish-nationalist youth movement called Schild & Vrienden, was convicted of inciting violence and denying the Holocaust, the Ghent criminal court ruled Tuesday morning.”
I will get down voted to hell again by redditors :
Inciting violence should obviously get you in prison.
But denying holocaust ? I have no doubt it happened (please don’t put me in jail), but I don’t think anyone should be put in prison if he says stupid shit.
I can only see that making holocaust deniers more relevant.
We are still lacking a lot of freedom of speech in Europe, I don’t like taking USA has a model, but that’s definitely an area where they can teach us a lesson.
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Disgusting person, but I’m sad to see how many people celebrate him being jailed.
Instead of winning over him in the marketplace of free ideas, he’s silenced and martyred. Id prefer commies, Nazis, liberals, greens, conservatives, reactionaries, socialists, anarchists etc all get a chance to speak. That doesn’t mean you have to platform them. But to legally punish them for wrong think, means Belgium is no longer a free society.
“prodigy”
All the wannabes crying in the comments, if he represents your views, please act on them and follow your leader to the big house, safe from the fAr LeFt
>The leader of Vlaams Belang, Tom Van Grieken, hit out at the ruling, saying “Belgian justice is rotten through and through … From Day 1, this has been a political trial.”
Right wing idiots are surprised it’s a crime to incite violence and deny the Holocaust.
Europe lefties locking up opponents putin would be proud
It’s not like a news from Russia, no really, this is different.
Yes Really.
Now think twice before you post something on the internet. The woke Gestapo is watching.
While happy to see this, I hope politicians are trying to understand how people like these are finding support.
I hope the sentence wasn’t given on his speeches but rather based on that gun love etc.
“Flanders’ far right …”. In all the southern half of the country, the French-speaking part, he has no voice nor influence nor relevance.
Based on Dutch language reporting the politico headline is wrong. He’s not convicted for inciting violence, he’s convicted of inciting racism and negationism. “(het aanzetten tot) racisme en negationisme”. [This Flemish analysis was more insightful to me.](https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20240312_93907830)
Based on memes and comments made on a private discord server, which the court says are still deemed public in the eyes of the law.
If you like free speech I don’t think you should be cheering for this ruling, despicable as van Langenhove might be.
He’s a clown, cries about “left-wing” lies in the news but lies constantly about “facts”
He’s not only getting jail time for his right wing memes, it’s way more than that but “oh no, Elon please i’m getting jail time for mah memes :((((”
Dries VLH is a parasite and an awful human being.
Why is it the only time we’re in world news it’s only the bad stuff. How about Obamna coming to our tech festival? Everyone likes ombama right?
Edit: apparently people dont like obama
This guy is convicted for denying the holocaust and spreading messages of white supremacy. I’m glad he’s getting punished
Are people really applauding people being send to jail for things said online? From what I gather it wasn’t even himself who said anything but other people in a discord he was also in?
Should I be worried the police will arrive at my door because someone said something racist in one of the discord channels I am in???
More than anything I am worried about the atmosphere here of overwhelming support. I feel like I live in a different world.
But muh China and Russia
Here before the inevitable far-right apologists onslaught 😀