Interesting Links for 13-11-2022
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andrewducker- 1. A material normally only found in meteorites has now been made artificially, and may solve our issues with some rare earth metals
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- 2. German transphobe also a Holocaust denier
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- 3. Iran Votes to Execute Protesters (there are 15,000 in prison right now)
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- 4. English people encounter pizza for the first time
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- 5. Discovery of bronze statue rewrites Italy's Etruscan-Roman history
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- 6. Why do so few women excel at maths? Sexism, of course
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- 7. Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend (clients include Apple and McDonalds, and 5,000 more)
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- 8. How "Wordle editor" became a real job at The New York Times
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Date: 2022-11-14 08:55 am (UTC)It's that prosecutors in Germany are doing this.
There are certain expressions of support for National Socialism that are *not* free speech in Germany, and Holocaust Denial is one of them.
It hasn't been prosecuted in this context before.
And prosecutions under this particular law carry a huge weight in German public opinion.
I don't think that this significance is communicated in the article, but why would it be? The target audience is immersed in it, no-one even needs to say that it's important, nor why.
...And we, as outsiders, see the detailed arguments - which the German public are following very closely indeed - without realising that the context is more important than the detail.