German Prosecutors Think It’s Funny People’s Homes Are Being Raided And Their Devices Seized Because They Said Stuff On The Internet
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Guys like Bannon or Elmo are the visible faces of a much broader movement that has been diverting funds towards the European far right. We're seeing a reverse paperclip op. There isn't a single far right European party with electoral expression that wasn't involved in some scandal about funding of dubious origins (in countries where there is oversight).
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it might be a difference of language but it's important to recognize that courts are part of your system of governance regardless of the words you use to describe it, and are subject to most of the same incentives and corrupting influences, and some thatare unique to courts.
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Meanwhile, United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
“What is happening in Germany is not normal.”
“The more I hear, the more I’m shocked. This is a country that has lectured the Global South on fundamental freedoms—freedom of assembly, freedom of opinion.”
“What are Germans waiting for to say: enough!”
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That law is definitely problematic. The phrasing was even back then critizised rightfully as too broad, too open to interpretation. It generates a bad precedent, as it could just as well be used against anti fascism activists once the AFD manages to grab power anywhere.
Now where does that come from?
It stemmed from one of those actionism-phases in politics where someone said 'oh there's so much hate on the internet, it inspires hate on the streets, what should we do?'The backdrop was a consistent uprising in really troubling hate speech on the internet, where people with their clear names called for lynching politicians and their families.
The thing is, addressing this would not have required new laws. We would have been fine with someone actually persecuting the laws we already had.Now the "new law" ofc makes it easier to persecute those criminal cases. But that prosecution still only happens if the police actually stand up to it. Arguments like "insufficient public interest" "insufficient staffing" "that could have been anyone writing this, how should we know that an account named Max Mustermann actually belongs to said Max Mustermann" still give the police in the more right wing states in Eastern Germany easy ways out. If they don't want to prosecute a crime, they will always find a way around it.
With all that being said, I can only concur with observations that this law is only now being discussed in international news as right-wing governments with media ties try to make a bad mood against Germany and influence the upcoming elections. Otherwise the anti-protest laws in the UK that bring climate activists behind bars for peaceful non-violent protests would top those headlines every time.
Tl/DR; yes, that law is shit and good intentions don't help. Police still only prosecute those they want.
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Its pretty wild to see a privacy sub defend and agree with this kind of stuff. Shits evil.
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ACAB
No matter the country, pigs will be pigs
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The world is a wild place. I think it's relatively good here still
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Fair enough. Its a shame that the entire western world seems to be collectively trying to eliminate democracy.
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I think most people want to keep democracy, it's the ultra rich which use facism to dismantle it.
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Yea the tech was worthless after that time and they also lost the lid of my grinder!!!
