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I’m curious how the German state deals with ethnic nationalist content on Telegram, which is illegal for Germans. A lot of channels where people do the Roman sa
by jeofken 6y ago
I’m curious how the German state deals with ethnic nationalist content on Telegram, which is illegal for Germans. A lot of channels where people do the Roman salute, talk about natives heading to minority status, and other things illegal. Afaik Telegram is not censorable and the servers are in Russia
- foepys 6y ago> which is illegal for Germans It is not. Consuming it is absolutely legal. It is even in our constitution that the state does not censor. What is illegal is "making" (for lack or a better word) hate speech and inciting violence. Example: You can buy Hitler's "Mein Kampf" since 2015. Before that it wasn't possible just because Bavaria held the rights after Hitler's death and refused to publish uncommented full versions. Since books enter the free domain 70 years after the author's death, Mein Kampf entered it in 2015.
- jeofken 6y agoThank you for clearing it up for me - Germans can consume but not produce national socialist speech and content.
- kgeist 6y agoThe servers are definitely not in Russia because the team had to leave Russia due to the pressure from the government which outlawed it a few years ago. IIRC it runs on AWS because I remember when Russian government started banning Telegram IP ranges a lot of AWS-based sites became unavailable in Russia as collateral damage
- jeofken 6y agoThanks for correcting me - much appreciated