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AfD politician 'censored' under new German hate speech law for anti-Muslim tweet
« on: January 02, 2018, 02:12:42 pm »
Beatrix von Storch, a leading figure in the Alternative for Germany party, is one of the first hit by new hate speech laws on social media. Critics say the legislation opens the way for censorship by internet companies.


A top lawmaker from the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was blocked from Twitter and Facebook on Monday after slamming the Cologne police for sending a New Year's tweet in Arabic.

The incident caused the AfD to lash out further and criticize censorship as a controversial new German social media law known as NetzDG went into effect January 1 in a bid to clamp down on online hate speech.



The Cologne police tweeted New Year's greetings and linked to information on celebrating safely in a series of messages in German and other languages, including Arabic. Cologne was the scene two years ago of mass sexual assaults on New Year's Eve  in which most of the suspects were described as young men of North African and Arab origin.

"What the hell is happening in this country? Why is an official police site tweeting in Arabic? Do you think it is to appease the barbaric, gang-raping hordes of Muslim men?" wrote Beatrix von Storch, the deputy leader of the AfD's parliamentary group.

The tweet was later deleted after Twitter froze von Storch's account and informed her she had violated hate speech rules. Her account was shut down for 12 hours. The Cologne police said on Monday that they had filed a criminal complaint against von Storch for hate speech.

http://www.dw.com/en/afd-politician-censored-under-new-german-hate-speech-law-for-anti-muslim-tweet/a-41992679
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Re: AfD politician 'censored' under new German hate speech law for anti-Muslim tweet
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2018, 06:06:44 pm »
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Re: AfD politician 'censored' under new German hate speech law for anti-Muslim tweet
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2018, 08:20:26 pm »
Merkel's bunch as well as the Socialists are scared to death of AfD.  God forbid a political party actually listen to the people and raise concerns about the invasion of Muslims into Europe and especially Germany.

AfD has reached out to those people are are beginning to make inroads into state as well as federal government there.

They'll only be able to censor them for so long.
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Germany starts enforcing hate speech law
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2018, 08:50:56 pm »
Germany starts enforcing hate speech law
1 January 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42510868

Germany is set to start enforcing a law that demands social media sites move quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material.

Sites that do not remove "obviously illegal" posts could face fines of up to 50m euro (£44.3m).

The law gives the networks 24 hours to act after they have been told about law-breaking material.

Social networks and media sites with more than two million members will fall under the law's provisions.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be the law's main focus but it is also likely to be applied to Reddit, Tumblr and Russian social network VK. Other sites such as Vimeo and Flickr could also be caught up in its provisions.

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Re: Germany starts enforcing hate speech law
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2018, 08:53:16 pm »
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Re: Germany starts enforcing hate speech law
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2018, 08:57:25 pm »
Didn't see a definition of "hate speech".   :pondering:
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Re: AfD politician 'censored' under new German hate speech law for anti-Muslim tweet
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2018, 09:24:48 pm »
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Re: AfD politician 'censored' under new German hate speech law for anti-Muslim tweet
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2018, 11:28:30 pm »
re DCPatriot's pic above:

I have that same one in my archives.
It's as prescient an image as one could find.

I make the following statement with the full understanding of what it implies:

Unless the Germans can find within themselves a few stirrings of their early 1940's "Vaterland" spirit, they are doomed.

At least the AfD is trying.
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