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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 c0lo on Monday June 26 2017, @05:51AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 26 2017, @05:51AM (#531144) Journal

    (and no doubt terrible hygiene)

    Chill, mate, that didn't add anything to the discussion and you aren't going to convince me using negative imagery about a person.
    Just ask our philosopher-on-duty about the philosophical stature and personal hygiene habits of a friend of his, Diogenes (well, I bet aristarchus will deny he was ever friends with Diogenes and invoke something like the non-overlapping life spans; I have a hunch is more about embarrassment, though. Large grin - a cynical one, to be precise).

    On the other side, most of the authoritarians I met over my life were impeccable dressed (with the notable exception of my father).

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 26 2017, @06:12AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday June 26 2017, @06:12AM (#531152) Journal

    I dunno, a guy who spends several hours a day with his beaky schnozz up a dead water buffalo's decomposing rectum probably isn't gonna smell all that good...

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday June 26 2017, @06:34AM (2 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 26 2017, @06:34AM (#531160) Journal

      Which is in no relation whatsoever with the authoritarian trait of his character (I won't deny it, he might though) or his chances to be wrong or correct in any given situation.

      (character assassination is irrelevant and, IMHO, a worse waste of time than posting on SN).

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      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 26 2017, @08:06AM (1 child)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday June 26 2017, @08:06AM (#531188) Journal

        That, dear c0lo, presupposes that there is a character to assassinate.

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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 26 2017, @08:20AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 26 2017, @08:20AM (#531194) Journal

          :)
          Even a bad character is a character - heck, even char(0) is still a character.
          And TMB is quite a peculiar one.

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