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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 27 2017, @06:05PM (1 child)
Every single day and twice on Sunday. Identity politics will destroy this nation. My picked poison is actually causing violence, riots, and deaths in the streets right now, imagine it in another twenty or thirty years.
As for social utility, the right gives more and does more charitable work than the left by a damned sight. So, yeah, I gotta say that as well. I have no idea where libertarians like myself stand but I'd hazard a guess that we out-help the left as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Tuesday June 27 2017, @11:31PM
Yeah see I honestly think you're still seeing phantoms due to exposure to all media. It's not that any one of them is fake, it's that they're all fake in their humanism and social responsibility. I don't watch news anymore. I don't see things like this unless the event is so extreme that word of it reaches me organically. This happens sometimes, like with the shooting of the baseball game. But rarely. Because people get outraged and then forget. The stuff that needs to stick does.
What I saw: Nipple hats, other failed branding attempts plethora, a googler-involved demonstration and finally a fairly respectable march in the name of science. People are in general violent cunts. The way with which those events were coordinated (again besides utter failure at branding) is downright envious for the lack of reported violence. This world on fire shit is going to be regretted later if some group or another gets pissed off enough for another LA riots. Then you'll have your sunday-edition of presupposition-supporting ebil all you want. Right now, you might as well be asking for a military cordon on the froyo shop in terms of me trying to understand where you're coming from with this.
Also I expect government-lead death to hit my door quite a long time before the civilian thought police do. Maybe that's why I don't see the doom around the corner? Like, molotov up my ass versus 1600 drones approved by fat people in suits. One seems more threatening than the other if imminent threats are the concern.
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