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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @04:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @04:03AM (#531101)

    Yeah. This sucks. We used to have a fun IRC channel. The usual problems happened. They were dealt with.

    One day this guy starts spamming the channel with pages of swear words. It went on for weeks. Most people moved to another channel.

    The channel died. People just could not stand to be in there. The guy spamming the channel with pages of swear words was the IRC admin.

    A couple of years later I moved state. I actually miss that IRC channel now.

    Some people don't realise how much of a dick they are being.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @04:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @04:51AM (#531125)

    These are the people who would enjoy coming up with the most horrific insults while gaming, or chatting in IRC. They never grew out of their teenage troll mentality. They get jollies from pissing people off online, then hide behind freedom of speech and such so that they can sound superior. What else can we say? And yes, they have been steadily ruining this site.