60 Minutes: Posting hateful speech online could lead to police raiding your home in this European country

[DigitalDrifter]

Sickening, and god help us if we sit back and allow the left in America to head us down this road! Looks like fascism is alive and well in Germany and much of Europe.

60 Minutes - Newsmakers

Posting hateful speech online could lead to police raiding your home in this European country​

By Sharyn Alfonsi
February 16, 2025 / 7:00 PM EST / CBS News


If you've ever dared to read the comments on a social media post, you might start to wonder if civilized discourse is just a myth. Aggressive threats, lies, and harassment have unfortunately become the norm online, where anonymity has emboldened some users to push the limits of civility. In the United States, most of what anyone says, sends, or streams online — even if it's hate-filled or toxic — is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But Germany is trying to bring some civility to the world wide web by policing it in a way most Americans could never imagine. In an effort, it says, to protect discourse, German authorities have started prosecuting online trolls. And as we saw, it often begins with a pre-dawn wake-up call from the police.

Posting hateful speech online could lead to police raiding your home in this European country

In the U.S., most of what we say online, even if it's hate filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, prosecutors and cops police the internet.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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And it gets even worse.

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[Dogmaphobe]

.....and guess who controls what is considered hateful

 

[shockedcanadian]

 

[Darkwind]

Three of the panel talking to the journalist litterally answered that insulting someone is a crime.

 

[toobfreak]

.....and guess who controls what is considered hateful

And so goes 80% of what makes people interesting-- diversity of view, personality. No more funny memes, teasing, nicknames or bad jokes, no one will want to risk having their home busted into at 4AM raided and their property stolen just for making a bad joke on line, because, heavens forbid! It stays forever!

Not a crime where you get a letter in the mail, the police kick in your door.

So now, in between arresting everyone in a state of fear, all that will be posted online in Germany now will be the bland, milquetoast pap watered down so as not to be deemed offensive in the slightest to the most sensitive among them.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

 

[frigidweirdo]

Sickening, and god help us if we sit back and allow the left in America to head us down this road! Looks like fascism is alive and well in Germany and much of Europe.

Posting hateful speech online could lead to police raiding your home in this European country

In the U.S., most of what we say online, even if it's hate filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, prosecutors and cops police the internet.

www.cbsnews.com

Well, it's a choice between that, or freedom being lost because people create such division.

Let's look at the difference between the UK and the US. The US had protests, they lasted for a year, the UK had them for a week, because the UK dealt with those people who were inciting violence.

And it's funny when the BLM riots were on, the right came up with plenty of ideas of how to stop them...

 

[BackAgain]

I don’t mind them covering their story of “freedom of speech” in other lands.

But it sure came across like pretty heavily biased in favor of such restrictions of (and penalizing of) speech. One might have imagined a left wing media outlet to show favor toward our 1st Amendment.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

I don’t mind them covering their story of “freedom of speech” in other lands.

But it sure came across like pretty heavily biased in favor of such restrictions of (and penalizing of) speech. One might have imagined a left wing media outlet to show favor toward our 1st Amendment.

That's why the Political Compass exists. Not everyone on the left is in favor of free speech.

You can take the survey here:

The Political Compass

self-test of your position on 2 political dimensions

www.politicalcompass.org

This is my result:

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Did you see the woman knocking on the door to the apartment
Did you see the fat ass woman knocking on the door of the apartment with her clipboard
The only thing she's missing is the trench coat and the SS insignia

A fat pig radical leftist bureaucrat with armed men of the state behind her

She's a f****** hall monitor
A fascist nazi piece of s*** masquerading as a defender of democracy under the guise of stopping hate for everyone's safety..

What a load of horseshit..

And everyone involved in that story by CBS should be fired immediately for being f****** retarded... Especially the downtown ever says Free speech was a cause of genocide... Jesus f****** Christ man are they kidding me

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Did you see the woman knocking on the door to the apartment
Did you see the fat ass woman knocking on the door of the apartment with her clipboard
The only thing she's missing is the trench coat and the SS insignia

A fat pig radical leftist bureaucrat with armed men of the state behind her

She's a f****** hall monitor
A fascist nazi piece of s*** masquerading as a defender of democracy under the guise of stopping hate for everyone's safety..

What a load of horseshit..

And everyone involved in that story by CBS should be fired immediately for being f****** retarded... Especially the downtown ever says Free speech was a cause of genocide... Jesus f****** Christ man are they kidding me

No, they shouldn't be fired. I support free speech for everyone, including idiots.

 

[Iori_Yagami]

Reichwinger hatemongering fuckwad's face when they discover actions have consequences... priceless!

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

No, they shouldn't be fired. I support free speech for everyone, including idiots.

They could say whatever they want but really ...
They're supposed to be ........supposed to be a reputable news organization
Free speech was the cause of genocide....


Trying to place Hall monitor bureaucrats up on a pedestal..
A fat useless Hall monitor with the armed state dragging people off in handcuffs
Cuz they maybe said we should do something about him immigration
Or at least..... third world f****** animals are raping and stabbing our citizens...


Well they did burn all the gay porn lol
And just like that the left will be shocked and outraged all over again.
Derp

Not these marxists fags
They'll hand it out to kindergartners

 

[zaangalewa]

Sickening, and god help us if we sit back and allow the left in America to head us down this road! Looks like fascism is alive and well in Germany and much of Europe.

Write "I made a plan how to kill President Donald Trump. Send me your kalashnikov. Tomorrow he will be dead." Let someone read this and inform the police. What will happen in the USA if a responsible policeman thinks there exists a real problem because there is really a kalashnikov from me on the way to you?

Let me tell you: Better you do so in Germany. Your chances of surviving or not ending up in prison forever are much higher here. Here you will get a branding "idiot" onto your forehead and you will be able to continue to live happy under all the others idiots with or without idiot tatoo.

 

[zaangalewa]

Do you really think anyone in Germany ist listening to a Trump video in the length of 5 minutes when he has the chance to listen to an opera of Wagner for 12 hours?

 

[zaangalewa]

Three of the panel talking to the journalist litterally answered that insulting someone is a crime.

More easy: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. And: You shall not believe false accusations.

Stalking and character assassination are real problems. Specially when a mob produces shit storms. In addition, there are threats of violence and murder and calls for violence against public figures who are just doing their job. Even firefighters and doctors come under fire - and everyone else who tries to help all other people. In some cases this all ends with real attacks and murder. The list of professionals who are attacked is nearly endless since every idiot thinks he is the allmighty god on his own and has the right to destroy whatever life with his aggressions, lies and defamations.

What someone is saying private to others is normally no problem.The problem is to destroy the good reputation of a person - including the business of this person.

By the way. In Germany nobody gets compensation for pain and suffering in such a case. The fine that someone has to pay goes to a charitable organisation that is determined by the court.

 

[Darkwind]

More easy: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. And: You shall not believe false accusations.

Stalking and character assassination are real problems. Specially when a mob produces shit storms. In addition, there are threats of violence and murder and calls for violence against public figures who are just doing their job. Even firefighters and doctors come under fire. And in some cases this all ends with real attacks and murder. The list of profesasionals who are attacked is nearly endless befaseu since every idiot thinks he is the allmighty god on his own and ghas the roptghb to destroy whatever life with aggressions, lies and defamations.

Already covered under existing laws. To simply insult someone should not be considered a crime, ever.

 

[zaangalewa]

Already covered under existing laws. To simply insult someone should not be considered a crime, ever.

Tell me: Why are you interested in the laws of Germany and our discussions in this context? If you are an US-American who is doing here a crime and has here the choice to be judged by laws of the USA or laws of Germany then you will anyway choose the German laws.