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In a coordinated campaign across 14 states, the German police on Tuesday raided the homes of 36 people accused of hateful postings over social media, including threats, coercion and incitement to racism.
Most of the raids concerned politically motivated right-wing incitement, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office, whose officers conducted home searches and interrogations. But the raids also targeted two people accused of left-wing extremist content, as well as one person accused of making threats or harassment based on someone's sexual orientation.
"The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action," Holger Münch, president of the Federal Criminal Police Office, said in a statement. "Our free society must not allow a climate of fear, threat, criminal violence and violence either on the street or on the internet."
The raids come as Germans are debating the draft of a new social media law aimed at cracking down on hate speech, a measure that an array of experts said was unconstitutional at a parliamentary hearing on Monday.
The measure, championed by Justice Minister Heiko Maas for passage this month, would fine Facebook, Twitter and other outlets up to $53 million (50 million euros) if they failed to remove hate speech and other forms of illegal content.
The left ladies and gentlemen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @08:22AM (2 children)
Of course, khallow! The obvious explanation is that you is one, so you cannot see it, just like you cannot smell your own farts. There have been no conservatives in America since Teddy Roosevelt. Nothing but reactionaries, recidivists, crypto-royalists, racists, Southern Democrats, Shriners, and Oddfellows. Which one, or ones, are you, khallow?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday June 26 2017, @12:09PM (1 child)
"There have been no conservatives in America since Teddy Roosevelt."
That's funny. I always think of him as a progressive because of the platform of his Bull Moose party, the progressive party of 1912. Among its planks was women's suffrage, a ban on child labor, and tighter regulation of industrial combinations (monopolies and oligopolies to you and me). He was no Democrat, but somebody really fighting for the average American.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @08:27PM
But Teddy did establish the National Parks! He was, unlike the foaming Reactionaries of today, an actual conservative who tried, you know, to conserve stuff. As opposed to destroying or selling to China, or letting Bundys overgraze the hell out of it.