Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: June 22, 2017 at 11:28:36 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media
>
>
> Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-accused-of-hateful-postings-over-social-media.html?_r=1
>
>      In a coordinated campaign across 14 states, the German police
>    on Tuesday raided the homes of 36 people accused of hateful
>    postings over social media, including threats, coercion and
>    incitement to racism.  Most of the raids concerned politically
>    motivated right-wing incitement, according to the Federal
>    Criminal Police Office, whose officers conducted home searches
>    and interrogations. But the raids also targeted two people
>    accused of left-wing extremist content, as well as one person
>    accused of making threats or harassment based on someone's
>    sexual orientation.  "The still high incidence of punishable
>    hate posting shows a need for police action," Holger Mnch,
>    president of the Federal Criminal Police Office, said in a
>    statement. "Our free society must not allow a climate of fear,
>    threat, criminal violence and violence either on the street or
>    on the internet."  The raids come as Germans are debating the
>    draft of a new social media law aimed at cracking down on hate
>    speech, a measure that an array of experts said was
>    unconstitutional at a parliamentary hearing on Monday.  The
>    measure, championed by Justice Minister Heiko Maas for passage
>    this month, would fine Facebook, Twitter and other outlets up
>    to $53 million (50 million euros) if they failed to remove
>    hate speech and other forms of illegal content.
>
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> --Lauren--
> Lauren 



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