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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday June 25 2017, @10:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the wrong-thinking-will-be-punished dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-accused-of-hateful-postings-over-social-media.html


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  • (Score: 2) by BK on Monday June 26 2017, @01:03AM (10 children)

    by BK (4868) on Monday June 26 2017, @01:03AM (#531045)

    Just think. EF has you triggered. And he didn't even post in this thread. That's funny.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday June 26 2017, @08:14AM (9 children)

    by Wootery (2341) on Monday June 26 2017, @08:14AM (#531191)

    I don't buy it. You don't get to be smug (the 'u so triggered' BS) when people respond appropriately to bigoted posts.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 26 2017, @10:34AM (8 children)

      Dude, that's exactly what trolls do. It's the freaking definition of a troll.

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      • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday June 26 2017, @11:09AM (7 children)

        by Wootery (2341) on Monday June 26 2017, @11:09AM (#531254)

        I suppose that's true. So triggered just means failed to realise they're dealing with a troll.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @03:51PM (6 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @03:51PM (#531361)

          Yup, it is a very high form of humor. Like those "just a prank bro" tools. Trolls bring shit to the discussion, it can be funny when done obviously enough, but EF and TMB are not master trolls. Their trolls are lame shock value crap which happens to be close enough to their real values that it is near impossible to tell. Their humor relies on knowing their character very well so you can see when its a troll.

          So, while I like the freedom of speech aspect, these trolls are promoting censorship by showing that freedom results in this kind of shit. Long time users have already left the site or stopped getting involved with the discussions. Anyone on the fence will look at EF and the AC troll here and very possibly switch to being pro censorship.

          No where does the freedom of speech require giving people a platform. I would prefer that everyone does away with hate speech laws and we regulate discussions ourselves as communities. But that might hurt the delicate sensitivities of the libertarian base here. Besides, this place is just the private playground for these people, they obviously don't care about quality of discussion. It is more about having a sandbox they can shit in without getting in trouble.

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 26 2017, @05:27PM (4 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday June 26 2017, @05:27PM (#531418) Journal

            I think Eth is hilarious, in an awful way. He's just only tolerable in small doses. Uzzard, though, isn't trolling. Not really. He actually believes the shit he posts, and hides behind "hurr hurr it's a joke, snowflake" when called out on it.

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            • (Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 27 2017, @11:09AM (3 children)

              Nah, you just lack the mental nuance to distinguish my trolls from my heartfelt positions.

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              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 27 2017, @04:02PM (2 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @04:02PM (#531975) Journal

                Er, no, there is *no difference* between your trolls and your "heartfelt positions." You're shit from the ground up. At this point you have no credibility and I wouldn't believe you were human even if I saw your birth certificate.

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                • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 27 2017, @06:08PM (1 child)

                  Yes, we already know you're incapable of telling when I'm being serious and winding you up. You bite every single time.

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                  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:24PM

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:24PM (#532133) Journal

                    Says the guy who responds to every--single--post--every--time--i--reply.

                    You missed the point, as usual, you carrion-sucking shithead: you are such a worthless subhuman degenerate that there is no effective difference between your trolling and your supposed serious moments. In either case you're a stain on humanist.

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          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 27 2017, @11:11AM

            No, my cowardly compatriot, my humor lies in most of you being unable to distinguish a heartfelt position that disagrees with yours from just trying to wind you up.

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