> No one would for sure arrest you for being critical of a foreign government.

Does _not_ need to be foreign.

People in Western Democracies assume we are immune to dictatorships.

Plenty of dictatorships in our modern history were regressions from at least some form of functional democracy, many even regressed from long lasting robust democracies.

So much of the UK, EU comission, Palantir moves is straight up Stasi playbook.

It is almost disrespectful of German History and collective suffering for VDL to stand on the wrong side of history with this corporate puppetering.