[DominikR]

They are now introducing "hate-crimes" here in the EU. This punishes there mere act of publicly saying or writing a hateful comment. (non threatening, non endorsing or inciting criminal acts)

If people take offence, you will be persecuted. So it's a great law to further tighten the control over what can be discussed and what can't.

And if that wasn't enough, our government now allows NGO's and other non state organisations to police Facebook and other social media to prevent and contain types of thoughtcrime that haven't been yet criminalised.

No approval from a court needed, some privately funded NGO will in future decide for us.

[illumen]

Which law precisely are you talking about? Racist hate speech was already illegal in Germany.

I'm genuinely interested if you could link to something describing what you are talking about.

[DominikR]

Example (sorry, it's in German):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung

The second item of StGb 130 (updated in 2015) is interesting here:

die Menschenwürde anderer dadurch angreift, dass er eine vorbezeichnete Gruppe, Teile der Bevölkerung oder einen Einzelnen wegen seiner Zugehörigkeit zu einer vorbezeichneten Gruppe oder zu einem Teil der Bevölkerung beschimpft, böswillig verächtlich macht oder verleumdet,

It states that if you attack/insult the dignity of a person or group with a statement, you are a to be punished.

This part in specific: "oder zu einem Teil der Bevölkerung beschimpft" -> or some group within the population without further specification.

So if a prosecutor feels like it he/she might persecute you for insulting for example Feminists.

Compare this with the version of the same law from 1871:

„Wer in einer den öffentlichen Frieden gefährdenden Weise verschiedene Klassen der Bevölkerung zu Gewaltthätigkeiten gegen einander öffentlich anreizt, wird mit Geldstrafe bis zu zweihundert Thalern oder mit Gefängniß bis zu zwei Jahren bestraft.

Seems more reasonable to me, only inciting violence is criminalised here.