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Land of the free, where police raid your home at dawn over mean tweets: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-german-politician-police-rai

Land of the free, where police raid your home at dawn over mean tweets: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-german-politician-police-raid/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g... https://archive.ph/hETjp https://archive.ph/hETjp Not a one-off, either: https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/germans-cant-insult-politicians-which-is-why-we-need-to-protect-free-speech-in-the-us/ https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/germans-cant-insult...

pjc50 1y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj5nlxz44yo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj5nlxz44yo
croes 1y ago
"In March 2022, the investigation was dropped due to a lack of public interest in prosecution.In August 2022, the Hamburg Regional Court also ruled that the house search was unlawful and unreasonable." Freedom doesn't mean that no errors are made but that they are aknowledged as errors. The responsible politician still gets rediculed for that and isn't praised by his fanbase.
foobahify 1y ago
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lm28469 1y ago
There are hour long videos of US cops shooting unarmed people in their own homes available online if you want to make a "LaNd Of ThE FrEe" dick size contest
rspoerri 1y ago
The laws are different: "Incitement and defamation laws are far broader in Germany than in the United States, with some European legislation on the books that forbids defaming leaders and makes Holocaust denial a crime.". You are not allowed hate speech on the internet in a lot of countries. You will be prosecuted for that. But different to other countries, in a majority of the european countries (turkey, greece are currently problematic) people are not deported, put in jail or camps and forgotten, even without a sentence and hearing.
- brickfaced 1y ago
  You're right, not nearly enough people are deported.

pjc50 1y ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj5nlxz44yo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj5nlxz44yo

croes 1y ago

"In March 2022, the investigation was dropped due to a lack of public interest in prosecution.In August 2022, the Hamburg Regional Court also ruled that the house search was unlawful and unreasonable." Freedom doesn't mean that no errors are made but that they are aknowledged as errors. The responsible politician still gets rediculed for that and isn't praised by his fanbase.

foobahify 1y ago

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lm28469 1y ago

There are hour long videos of US cops shooting unarmed people in their own homes available online if you want to make a "LaNd Of ThE FrEe" dick size contest

rspoerri 1y ago

The laws are different: "Incitement and defamation laws are far broader in Germany than in the United States, with some European legislation on the books that forbids defaming leaders and makes Holocaust denial a crime.". You are not allowed hate speech on the internet in a lot of countries. You will be prosecuted for that. But different to other countries, in a majority of the european countries (turkey, greece are currently problematic) people are not deported, put in jail or camps and forgotten, even without a sentence and hearing.

brickfaced 1y ago
You're right, not nearly enough people are deported.