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| The country with the strongest internet content filters in Europe is the UK, hardly left winged hippies...
What Heiko Maas was targeting was something different. In the last couple of years did we see some sort of hate speech wave on the German internet. Yes, we can discuss forever how far freedom of speech should or does go... but in the current laws is it illegal to insult a person and even more so to threaten with violence. It does not matter if you do it online or in real life.
Hate campaigns at politicians and other public figures - typically the ones who supported refugees - have in fact lead to some crazy people committing violent crimes. So I think giving the police the tools to do the same jobs online which they do offline is a no-brainer. The discussion should not be if the police should enforce a law. The discussion should be on that law. | |
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We can walk around in circles discussing this. But the fact is that censorship exists, whether for good or bad reasons. And that you remark about the SVP has nothing to do with those who are really at the forefront of asking for and supporting it.