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“Instruments to tackle online sedition are actually not there. You can punish someone afterwards because the person has said something that is not allowed, but prohibiting it in advance is not possible,” says Vleugel. “This is due to the constitutional ban on preventive censorship. This means that the government may not prohibit certain statements in advance.”

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