Posted on 06/26/2025 9:43:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At around 6 a.m. this morning, hundreds of people across Germany awoke to police officers at their door. Their only ‘crime’ is to have openly made critical or offensive comments on the internet, many about specific politicians.
German police raiding right-wing Compact Magazine’s editor-in-chief’s home, Twitter
This is not a scene from the Third Reich or the German Democratic Republic, but from the Federal Republic in the 21st Century. Officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) intend to make approximately 170 house visits today, to investigate ‘hateful’ or insulting comments made online. Suspects have had their tablets, laptops, and phones confiscated, and their homes searched. This operation has been taking place annually for several years now, to enforce paragraph 188 of the German criminal code. This was amended in 2021 to make it a criminal offence to insult a political figure, punishable by a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
According to the BKA, there were 10,732 crimes related to online hate speech last year—that’s an increase of roughly 34% since 2023. Compared to 2021, the numbers have quadrupled. Naturally, the vast majority of the posts being targeted by police come from the right wing of the political spectrum.
The BKA also encourages citizens to support the police in combating so-called hate crimes. Anyone who encounters hate speech online or becomes a victim of hate speech should report it to the local police. “Report hate posts to social network providers and request them to delete criminal content,” the Federal Criminal Police Office states.
While it shies away from doing anything about its violent crime problem, the German state is not taking offensive memes or crude insults lightly. North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister, Christian Democrat Herbert Reul, warned: “Digital arsonists must not be able to hide behind
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OOPSIE, will they try to extradite me for thought crime? I am ready, come and get me Polizei!
Oh, for European readers....Islam is EVIL. You have to throw these slimy bastards out of Europe.
When you drop the voting age to 16, this is what you get.
Germany during the 1930’s and on with Hitler.
> “Digital arsonists” <
You’ve got to give fascists (both then and now) credit for one thing. They sure have a way with words.
I give the 1930s ones credit for having much better uniforms.
Can you say ‘dicktateresque’? Libs will luv this. Ja!?
They won't have a way with words after the Muslims takeover Germany and use these same laws to prosecute "blasphemy".
If this is so, how can an opposition candidate even run and campaign against an incumbent?
One's person rebuttal or rebuke could be considered an insult.
Is there a incorruptible government body who decides when an argument turns into an insult?
Ridiculous!
16-year-olds can vote in municipal elections, only. The minimum age for voting in state or federal elections is 18 years.
But I agree with you that 16 is absurdly young.
Regards,
FWIW, I think 18 is absurdly young. 25 would be best, but 21 was always a good compromise.
Good thing you did not call them NAZIs like I do or they would try to extradite you for "Thought Crimes Against Humanity" like they may try against me. Their Fuhrer is likely not pleased that German citizens can read this "digital arson" on Al Gores fabulous internet.
Most of the jackboots are masked. How interesting...
> They won’t have a way with words after the Muslims takeover Germany… <
I’ve got a sick feeling that many of them will convert, and become collaborators with the new, Islamic Germany.
Sort of like the Vidkun Quisling story.
Jeez, this is similar to how the Massachusetts “commonwealth” district attorney offices use (abuse) the Massachusetts “witness intimidation” law to silence their critics in cases such as in the Karen Read murder frame they attempted to pull off.
I guarantee you not a single Muslim will be rung up on charges for violating these laws. They are meant for one purpose — to prevent native-born Germans from rising up against the destruction of their country.
But then there's that pesky argument of "old enough to fight and die for one's country, but not old enough to vote."
The older I get, the more I think that Robert A. Heinlein had it right when it came to "earned" suffrage!
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