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If anyone wants some background info on the "idiot" comment: A Bavarian man captioned an image of Robert Habeck (the vice chancellor of Germany at the time) wi
by Aerroon 1y ago
If anyone wants some background info on the "idiot" comment:
A Bavarian man captioned an image of Robert Habeck (the vice chancellor of Germany at the time) with "Schwachkopf Professional" - "Professional Idiot". It was styled after the Schwarzkopf ad campaign. For this, Habeck filed a criminal complaint "to stop hate crime" against the man and the man's apartment was searched by the police and a tablet confiscated. Oh, and he was arrested over it as well. [0]
(The man was also accused of posting some nazi imagery earlier in the year, but the order to search his house seems to be related only to the insult. [1])
Imagine if you could be arrested for calling your (vice) president an idiot.
[0] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-over-online-insult/a-70793557 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...
[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/falschaussage-im-fall-schwachkopf-rentner-verklagt-wohl-grunen-chef-banaszak-13059730.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/falschaussage-im-fall-sc... (it's in German)
- jojobas 1y agoYou don't treasure your freedom of speech until you lose it.
- crossroadsguy 1y ago> Imagine if you could be arrested for calling your (vice) president an idiot. You must not set foot in the USA, India, China, et cetera, then. Imagine you say? Getting arrested might be the least of your worries in today's world if you decide to call a president (or the immediate underling) an idiot in many countries :D