Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow.

  • Saleh
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    1 day ago

    Who gets to decide what “actual crimes” are and what aren’t? For instance in Germany for good reason hate speech is forbidden and in rare cases can put you in prison. By US standards inconceivable. Meanwhile in the US people are coerced into plea deals for crimes they didnt commit, or get mandatory minimum sentences for drug posession in small quantities.

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      I don’t think anyone with a relatively good conscience thinks The US has it right. Luckily they are only 3% percent of the world.