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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @05:59AM (1 child)
I'd say "is hanging off the Left edge", but whatever. 8-)
Many (most?) of his usual sources, (World Socialist Website, Common Dreams, etc) are heavily left leaning
...and the most Leftist stuff doesn't make the front page.
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(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Monday June 26 2017, @10:09PM
Neither does a lot of the most biased right leaning stuff.
And I agree, hanging off the left edge is a pretty fair self evaluation. I was trying to be nice. :-)
But I stand by my previous statement, you DO write a pretty fine summary and make good arguments for your points, no matter how off the mark I personally think they are. Your subs are generally good fodder for discussion.
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