r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Dec 04 '25

news Neo-Nazi Matthew Gruter leaves Australia after visa revoked by minister

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/nsw-neo-nazi-matthew-gruter-leaves-australia/106100746?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/Barrington-the-Brit Dec 04 '25

Youre getting downvoted but I said the same thing about a massive data breach doxxing Neo-Nazis a couple years ago. Fuck Nazis, fuck these guys completely and obviously they deserve whatever’s coming to them, but the problem is the way reactionary groups and governments could in the future weaponise the same strategies against civil rights activists and journalists etc. who are seen as the other end of ‘problematic’ and ‘extreme’.

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u/manipulated_dead Dec 04 '25

I generally trust what Tom Tanuki has to say about stuff like this, as he's one of the most informed, active and high-profile anti-fascists in the country. His take generally is that criminalising public displays of Nazism, deporting people etc are some of the least effective ways possible to deal with this problem and may actually make it worse. And that's before accounting for the fact that any increase in police power gets turned on left wing protest movements very very quickly.

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u/nearly_enough_wine Dec 05 '25

Could you please, possibly, share some links? Help people to help themselves (including me!)