[flohofwoe]

Germany still has a couple of outdated laws left over from the turn of the (last) century, the Nazi years, or the hyper-conservative 50's and 60's, and sometimes bureaucrats and police take this stuff a bit too serious.

Browse the other "stories" on that news portal and it becomes clear that it is a right-wing populist click bait portal which tries to incite rage against the German state by hand-picking stories and amplifying them similar to tabloids like Bild. I wouldn't be surprised if half of the stories on that portal are mostly made up or half-thruths.

PS: it reads exactly like Bild because apparently this is the new project of Julian Reichelt, former head honcho of Bild, who was kicked out because of (TL;DR) being a bigger asshole than even Bild would tolerate.

[almatabata]

Interestingly the law in question here actually had a clearer definition in those early conservative years (https://lexetius.com/StGB/90a,7). That law only targeted organizations. After 1968 they actually expanded it to the current version. So we have to thank the overzealous conservative party who overreacted to the student protests for this overly broad law.

[gruez]

>Browse the other "stories" on that news portal and it becomes clear that it is a right-wing populist click bait portal which tries to incite rage against the German state by hand-picking stories and amplifying them similar to tabloids like Bild.

Isn't that literally the job of the media to "hand pick stories"? How is this any different than media outlets "hand picking" stories that involve police interactions going badly, when most police interactions end up fine?

[flohofwoe]

ImHO a somewhat serious media outlet should report such stories of course but otherwise remain neutral and refrain from "coloring" such stories with opinion and rage-bait. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but this new thing reeks too much of Buzzfeed, Fox News, RT or Bild.

[rokkitmensch]

Not to mention the grey lady, NPR, MSNBC and their ilk...