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As an immigrant to Australia, who loves Eurovision from my past life in Europe, it’s actually pretty rational. There is a public broadcaster here, that has broadcasts for minority populations, called SBS. It has news broadcasts in Greek, Italian and other languages. It has European media. It is supposed to be an alternative voice but also to address the high immigrant population here that want news from home, going back to ww1. They have consistently broadcast Eurovision and only have been a competitor in recent years.

Competition keeps prices down. Capitalism seeks to control a market to raise prices.

I have. It's become more common. I see the same for gluten free and vegan etc products.

I assume some good tasting products get avoided as people assume they are inferior due to alternative ingredients so they downplay it in the hope that their market share grows. Obviously, those looking for those products will be on the lookout for the label.

It's capitalism, still. You get a product you didn't want by deception that is legal.

There is a third option. Trump is a fool with a brain of mush and Mamdani was just personable and vaguely flattering while sticking to his agenda. Trump believes whomever speaks to him.

I get that. I don't know that the losses add up as the group was unheard of, but they didn't pull the ban out of their ass. I think they did everything to try and hide where it came from.

They work in Japan.

We'll, they did it on response to protests from a right wing group. I presume they worried that they would be associated with illicit content. It may be that they took a global view rather than western view of what's acceptable.

I have no doubt that they wouldn't care what people buy if there was nonprofit to lose.

Yes, but throw the book at all of them equally.

If he is prosecuted for hate speech, then remove his visa. Why are the "Aussies" getting off scot free. Why the double standard?

I used to think the Victoria laws banning swastikas etc was overkill. In this day and age, who'd be an actual nazi.

Who watches the watchmen? The same legal mechanism that was used here could be used against someone protesting the destruction of the environment. We've already seen similar. Or the Israeli genocide. We've already seen a peaceful protestor lose an eye. She was presumably a citizen given she was a candidate for election.

I understand the paradox of tolerance. I also understand state overreach.

I think the police and courts have too much power to stifle legitimate protest already. This will be a reason to stifle it more.

Like the recent greens candidate who was actually a lawyer, protesting Palestinian genocide and lost her eye due to excessive police force.

Haha, yes. I think there's a difference between being intolerant if Nazi beliefs people facing equal punishment and singling out people that are not citizens for different treatment.

That is, of course, how the Nazis started out. Of course all Germans were to be treated equally. Guess who weren't considered real Germans.

Why are the police that approved the rally not facing repercussions? That's what if like to know.