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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Herbert Reul is a poophead
There
I said it
Neener Neener
There’s a reason my ancestors left Rhine-Westphalia 280 years ago
Place never changes
Kinda like 1935 maybe.
Time to get out of Krautland while the getting is good.
Secretary General meets the President of the European Commission ..."KARENS"
The rise of the the new Nazi germany.
Not sure why we are defending Europe.
“Yep. Frankly, I don’t buy the “old enough to die, old enough to vote.” nonsense”
I don’t either unless you are drafting people. If you are using war slaves, they should be able to help choose the government that decides when to have a war.
We aren’t defending them from anything that I can see. They are expansionist and not under attack or threat from anyone except Russia. And even THAT is solely because they keep shooting missile into Russia and running sabotage operations.
One benefit to government officials of banning criticism is they can steal as much as they like—and anyone who dares to investigate them in any way can be silenced and thrown in prison.
It is almost as much fun as having a printing press in the basement.
“European Values” strike again!
More than 90% of police under the Tsar shifted gears and went to work for the mass-murdering Bolsheviks when they seized power. Same ‘ol same ‘ol. . .
Nasty, ruthless sociopaths. Eff them all.
Good Lord. Us FReepers would get like in prison if we were in Germany! What is sad is that the leftist German scum running their country cannot see the problem with what they are doing.
Digital Arsonist would be a great band for a Hard Rock band.
I am good with 18 as the voting age. My first vote at 18 was for Ronald Reagan when he wiped out Mondale.
I had a GGGreat-Grandfather who left Germany around 200 years. Smart guy! He changed his name from Johann Ludwig Barthe to John Louis Byrd.
Or creating Social Security (it’s nothing but a generational Ponzi scheme), but sending other people to prison if they dare construct a business that operates like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
In a perfect world, yes. But then, in a perfect world, who wouldn’t have wars.
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