Germany: Police Do Mass Raids Against People Who Say Mean Things About Politicians on Social Media

Freedom overload

Twitter has really stepped up its banning game since the Ukraine war hoax began. They’ve officially banned basically all footage from the country, point blank. Most recently, they started banning maps showing Russian troop movements.

This new type of censorship coincides with the new CEO of Twitter, an Indian guy whose name is whatever (I don’t care), saying he was going to introduce more extreme censorship.

The rest of the social media companies are presumably doing the same thing.

But this isn’t going fast enough for Germany. They have to institute terror against the population.

Breitbart:

Federal police in Germany have conducted mass raids across 13 states on Tuesday over online ‘insults’ levied against politicians.

A large number of apartments and houses were raided in Germany on Tuesday as Federal police in the country look to prosecute those who made allegedly hateful remarks against elected officials online.

In total, federal authorities have said that they have checked over 600 statements for so-called “criminal content”, with 100 people being “searched and questioned” across 13 different German states.

According to a report by Der Spiegel, a significant number of raids have also been conducted, with the houses and apartments of those suspected of posting illegal online messages being searched by law enforcement for incriminating evidence.

A press release by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office claimed that Tuesday’s so-called “joint day of action” was sparked by posts targeting politicians around the 2021 Federal elections, with elected officials in Germany having special legal privileges making it illegal for their constituents to level certain insults against them.

What?

“The basis for these investigations is Section 188 of the Criminal Code (StGB), which was revised in spring 2021 and makes insults, slander and defamation of people in political life particularly punishable,” the Federal Criminal Police Office statement reads.

“Public officials and elected representatives are given special criminal protection under [Section]188 StGB , regardless of the political level, against hate postings,” it continues.

Roflmao

How is that real?

The President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Münch, also commented on the hardline enforcement of Germany’s speech laws, threatening those in the country who would dare insult politicians that they will meet the same fate.

“With the day of action, we are making it clear: Anyone who posts hate messages must expect the police to be at the door afterwards,” Münch said, also noting that his force has been “pursuing criminal content on the Internet even more intensively since February of this year”.

Another official, Hessian Attorney General Torsten Kunze, also commented on the German speech crackdown, claiming that it was somehow a necessary measure to protect democracy, though the official did not cite any evidence for this claim.

“This day of action illustrates the extent to which public officials and elected representatives are insulted, slandered and threatened on the Internet,” he said. “In order to prevent the withdrawal of those affected from reaching a level that endangers democracy, we are prosecuting these crimes consistently and in close cooperation with the public prosecutors of the other federal states.”

So… now, questioning politicians on the internet can destroy democracy.

Just how fragile is democracy? Is there anything that can’t destroy it?

Here’s some further analysis of the level of “hate speech laws” that Germany has now.

It’s no longer just about protecting Jews, immigrants, and People of Anus.