3 ms·

See also: Germany's leader filing hundreds of criminal complaints against people who insult him on social media: https://rmx.news/article/germany-chancellor-me

• CarlitosHighway 4mo ago
  "Germany's leader" - that's how you know it's a low-brow article.
  • rpdillon 4mo ago
    Except the article doesn't say that, only the comment here does.
  • deleted 4mo ago
    [deleted]
• smcin 4mo ago
  Shocking, only 10 short years since this (when Merkel was Chancellor): Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian Jan Böhmermann (Germany's equivalent of John Stewart) over Erdoğan poem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474967 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474967
  • arrowsmith 4mo ago
    Which led to a British journalist holding an "offensive poems about Erdogan" contest, which was won by Boris Johnson: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johnson-wins-most-offensive-erdogan-poem-competition https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johns...