We punish people for saying the truth. In Germany we fined a man for calling a fat politician fat. Which she definitely is, morbidly so. Stuff like that.

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V__ 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Because insults can be fined. That is a German law though, not an EU thing.

	▲	peterfirefly 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A bigger issue than the fine (which Much didn't have to pay because he won in court) is that the police thought it was a swell idea to search his house. The fine was wrong, too, and the amount (6000€!) was absurd. https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/03/german-businessman-cleared... She should have challenged him to a duel instead. That would have been a lot more fair than mobilizing the state to fight battles that should never have been fought AND it would have put the risk where it should have been, namely on her shoulders (and stomach and thighs) instead of on his. Another insulcident happened in January 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ricarda_Lang&oldi... The German police thought it was within its rights to demand that a foreign social media platform hand over identifying information on a user that apparently called her "well-rounded" in a less polite manner. I don't think the German police should search citizen's houses or demand identifying information about people who say things that aren't nice (but true).