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Conservative politicians want 'fake news' to be criminal offense [Germany]
TheLocal.de ^ | 13 December 2016 11:13 CET+01:00 | DPA/The Local

Posted on 12/13/2016 3:21:48 PM PST by Olog-hai

Fearing media manipulation in next year’s national election, conservative Union politicians are calling for “fake news” to be a criminal offense.

“I find it sensible to toughen punishments for targeted campaigns,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party member, Ansgar Heveling, who is also head of the parliamentary internal affairs committee, to the Rheinische Post.

Another member of Merkel’s conservative CDU party, Patrick Sensburg, also voiced similar ideas to publishing group Funke Mediengruppe on Tuesday.

“Disinformation aimed at destabilizing the state should be a punishable offense,” Sensburg said.

And a member of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the CSU, Stephan Mayer, told Reuters that there should be a criminal punishment for spreading fake news, also noting the impact that hackers may have in spreading false information. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Germany; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cdu; eussr; fakenews; pressfreedom

1 posted on 12/13/2016 3:21:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Omission of the truth is also fakery. They should start by booting Merkel.


2 posted on 12/13/2016 3:23:47 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Olog-hai

Without fake news, 99% of the media racket would be in prison.


3 posted on 12/13/2016 3:24:25 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Olog-hai

News is as much what they don’t report as what they do.


4 posted on 12/13/2016 3:25:29 PM PST by webheart (All comments are considered to be sarcasm unless otherwise noted.)
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To: Olog-hai

WOW - that would be the end of media in America.


5 posted on 12/13/2016 3:26:51 PM PST by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: Olog-hai

And who gets to decide what’s fake news.

I’d rather deal with that decision myself.


6 posted on 12/13/2016 3:29:14 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Olog-hai

The US media will be reduced to FreeRepublic.com, conservative talk radio, Ham Radio, CBs and walkie talkies if we did that here.

Breaker. This here is Eddie01. You got your ears on?

This is huge and series come back.


7 posted on 12/13/2016 3:29:22 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: bgill

Half a truth is a whole lie.

Our propaganda organs are experts at that.


8 posted on 12/13/2016 3:31:55 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Olog-hai

What they mean by “fake news” is anything that counters the official leftist narrative.


9 posted on 12/13/2016 3:37:04 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: All

Merkel and the CDU/CSU are not “Conservative”...
they are “Center”-leftist, with the Bavarian CSU slightly less so.


10 posted on 12/13/2016 3:42:41 PM PST by SolidWood
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To: bgill
I'm surprised the German folks haven't picked up pitch forks and torches to go after MYerkel by now.
11 posted on 12/13/2016 3:43:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: Olog-hai

Count me in on this. If this law is passed here, count on the complete collapse of the old media empire. May we all live to micturate on the graves of the wretched liars at the nYtimes, CNN, and the rest of the alphabet networks.


12 posted on 12/13/2016 3:58:51 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Olog-hai

Merkel is a Satanist.

She applauded every bit of this "ceremony."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sny1XUXnh0Y

13 posted on 12/13/2016 6:22:53 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: bgill; Bon mots

14 posted on 12/13/2016 6:25:33 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Olog-hai

German reporters aren’t covering serious crimes, which is far more egregious than clickbait titles, though it is about as bad as censoring the few sources that ARE reporting things.

German State Media Defends Not Reporting Girl Raped and Murdered by ‘Refugee’
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/06/german-state-broadcaster-fails-report-migrant-rape-murder/

It’s not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Sweden’s record is shameful
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/its-not-only-germany-that-covers-up-mass-sex-attacks-by-migrant-men-swedens-record-is-shameful/


15 posted on 12/13/2016 7:08:01 PM PST by tbw2
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To: SkyPilot

Just wow.


16 posted on 12/13/2016 7:19:58 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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