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That's troubling. Has it been enforced, however? Europe - and probably everywhere else too - has anacronic laws that are rarely if ever enforced.
by rmbyrro 5y ago
That's troubling. Has it been enforced, however? Europe - and probably everywhere else too - has anacronic laws that are rarely if ever enforced.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoI'm not keeping track. Certainly a lot of things are being preemptively censored, especially on social media. People have also lost their jobs. It is not an "anachronistic law", it is a new law that came into being very recently.
- Sebb767 5y agoThere are a few worrying cases. One person, for example, got his house raided for calling a politician a dick on Twitter [0]. There are also a few far-reaching laws, such as the NetzDG [1], which is being pretty harshly criticized. That being said, Germany has never been as pro-free speech as the US (holocaust denial, for example, is illegal for a long time already) and you can still state your opinion pretty openly, as long as you're not an extremist. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/pimmelgate-hausdurchsuchung-auf-st-pauli-nach-twitter-beleidigung-von-andy-grote-a-77f2d9c8-d497-42b8-a83d-e7cab892989b https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/pimmelgate-hausdurchsuchung-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act#Critic...