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nani8ot 1y ago
In 2021, Andreas Grote, the minister of interior of the Germany city-state Hamburg was called a dick in a tweet. (Andy, you are such a dick). This led to a police search of the home of the Twitter account owner [1]. This sparked a discussion about how to handle hate spech, as for regular people being called a dick does not result in a 06:00 am. police raid with six officers. In the aftermath, a mural in a left wing culture center has been painted over multiple times with the tweet and a call for his resignation [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-german-politician-police-raid/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g... [1] https://archive.is/hETjp https://archive.is/hETjp [2] https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84c2f5f4291a5fc8410e23/ci23x11-w2000/pimmelgate-beschaeftigt-weiter-hamburger-polizei https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84...
- petre 1y ago
  Being called a dick on social media is now hate speech? I thought it was constructive criticism.
f1shy 1y ago
Here one: translation you can do at leisure. Also there is a sister comment with a similar case. I have a family memver that was also persecuted for hanging a flag saying “the park is for the children “ as they wanted to construct in a park. There are literally thousands of cases constantly of different severity, but freedom looks different to me. https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/habeck-beleidigung-plattform-x-ermittlungen-100.html https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/habeck-beleidigu...
- OKRainbowKid 1y ago
  "Demnach soll er im Frühjahr 2024 auf X eine Bilddatei mit Bezug zur Nazi-Zeit hochgeladen haben, die möglicherweise den Straftatbestand der Volksverhetzung erfüllen könnte."
  - f1shy 1y ago
    The police was sent when he wrote “schwachkopf”. Not before. The association with nazi came much later, and had a pretty good explanation. If you look the coments that guy wrote was CRISTAL CLEAR he was not nazi, and much less antisemitic. Was a clear case of using a law for what it was not intended.

In 2021, Andreas Grote, the minister of interior of the Germany city-state Hamburg was called a dick in a tweet. (Andy, you are such a dick). This led to a police search of the home of the Twitter account owner [1]. This sparked a discussion about how to handle hate spech, as for regular people being called a dick does not result in a 06:00 am. police raid with six officers. In the aftermath, a mural in a left wing culture center has been painted over multiple times with the tweet and a call for his resignation [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-german-politician-police-raid/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g... [1] https://archive.is/hETjp https://archive.is/hETjp [2] https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84c2f5f4291a5fc8410e23/ci23x11-w2000/pimmelgate-beschaeftigt-weiter-hamburger-polizei https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84...

petre 1y ago
Being called a dick on social media is now hate speech? I thought it was constructive criticism.

f1shy 1y ago

Here one: translation you can do at leisure. Also there is a sister comment with a similar case. I have a family memver that was also persecuted for hanging a flag saying “the park is for the children “ as they wanted to construct in a park. There are literally thousands of cases constantly of different severity, but freedom looks different to me. https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/habeck-beleidigung-plattform-x-ermittlungen-100.html https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/habeck-beleidigu...

OKRainbowKid 1y ago
"Demnach soll er im Frühjahr 2024 auf X eine Bilddatei mit Bezug zur Nazi-Zeit hochgeladen haben, die möglicherweise den Straftatbestand der Volksverhetzung erfüllen könnte."
- f1shy 1y ago
  The police was sent when he wrote “schwachkopf”. Not before. The association with nazi came much later, and had a pretty good explanation. If you look the coments that guy wrote was CRISTAL CLEAR he was not nazi, and much less antisemitic. Was a clear case of using a law for what it was not intended.