Not OP, but there is strong censorship. The previous government sent a police brigade to a random dud that said something like “he is a clown” or similar (don’t remember the details). In Germany you have to be extremely careful with what you say, and how you say it, because you can be in jail faster than you think.

There are people who see that as positive, because are used to be extremely careful and conscious of their words. But is a very thin line, where one word can obliterate your life as you know it.

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OKRainbowKid 4 days ago | parent [-]

Please post a source

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f1shy 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Here one: translation you can do at leisure. Also there is a sister comment with a similar case. I have a family memver that was also persecuted for hanging a flag saying “the park is for the children “ as they wanted to construct in a park.

There are literally thousands of cases constantly of different severity, but freedom looks different to me. https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/habeck-beleidigu...

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OKRainbowKid 4 days ago | parent [-]

"Demnach soll er im Frühjahr 2024 auf X eine Bilddatei mit Bezug zur Nazi-Zeit hochgeladen haben, die möglicherweise den Straftatbestand der Volksverhetzung erfüllen könnte."

	▲	f1shy 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The police was sent when he wrote “schwachkopf”. Not before. The association with nazi came much later, and had a pretty good explanation. If you look the coments that guy wrote was CRISTAL CLEAR he was not nazi, and much less antisemitic. Was a clear case of using a law for what it was not intended.

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nani8ot 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In 2021, Andreas Grote, the minister of interior of the Germany city-state Hamburg was called a dick in a tweet. (Andy, you are such a dick). This led to a police search of the home of the Twitter account owner [1].

This sparked a discussion about how to handle hate spech, as for regular people being called a dick does not result in a 06:00 am. police raid with six officers.

In the aftermath, a mural in a left wing culture center has been painted over multiple times with the tweet and a call for his resignation [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

[1] https://archive.is/hETjp

[2] https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84...

	▲	petre 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Being called a dick on social media is now hate speech? I thought it was constructive criticism.