In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences
This comment vastly understates the effects of this law. Social Media companies are scared af to be fined by the German government, so the filters are so strong, that it targets the wrong people. A couple of comedians and satire magazines have been hit, left leaning people as well as right leaning people alike.<p>In general, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a good idea for the government to decide what I can post on social media or not. There are already laws against defamation and &quot;volksverhetzung&quot; (sry I don&#x27;t no the translation, basically it means I can&#x27;t say &quot;kill all the jews&#x2F;muslims, they are filthy swines&quot;), so keep the internet free from more regulation on speech. The internet is one of the last places where people have some sort of freedom of opinion&#x2F;listening to different opinions, and our lawmakers make it more and more unfree.