[sfn42]

Do you have some specific examples? You present it as if it's a bad thing but I can imagine scenarios where it makes perfect sense. As an obvious example the person could be sharing CP on social media.

So what exactly are you referring to?

[sickofparadox]

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/06/german-police-mass-raids-h...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-woman-given-harsher-senten...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/germany-started-criminal-inves...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/10/autistic-teenage...

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...

Germany and the UK seem to be the worst offenders in regards to this, but that may just be selection bias on what gets into English language media. I can pull more articles if you're actually interested.

[sfn42]

The Telegraph article does seem a bit ridiculous but the others seem fairly fine to me. One of them wasn't even an arrest, it was just a politician pressing charges which is his right.

I think it's fair to demand that people follow laws on the internet as in person. Germany has laws against supporting nazism and for good reason. I don't give a crap about those people's right to free speech. The laws against insulting politicians seem a bit less reasonable but honestly just don't call people names online. Can't say I'm bothered by these articles.

[DeepSeaTortoise]

Most Germans wouldn't be able to recognize Nazism if it was doing the harlem shake on their dining table.

Mention to them that the only way Communism and Nazism differ is Nazism following Engel's nationalist approach to overthrowing capitalism rather than Marx's international one and Nazis having been obsessed with spiritual and Iranian occultism and you're met with blank stares.

Yet those are the fundamentals of Nazism everything else derives from. Including the Holocaust.

Same goes for the understanding of the Nazis "Nationalism". Most Germans just won't believe you when you tell them that it was an absurd use of that term and much more similar to the modern "pro-EU" mindset than the modern understanding of nationalism.

The Germans are propagandized into thinking the definition of Nazis is being called "rightwing" by the media and wanting decentralization of power and cultural homogenity (modern nationalism). Yet the left:

- has already its SA precursors back on the streets (Hammerbande, Antifa, "NGOs")

- is getting rid of free speech to the maximum extent they somehow can pull off within the limits of the law and beyond that through mandatory voluntary industry initiatives (e.g. "Trusted Flaggers")

- are manufacturing external enemies at fault for all wrong (the Russians)

- is spinning up the war machine (massive military spending at 5% of GDP, near limitless commitment to finance the Ukraine war instead of trying to push for peace)

- Are centralizing more and more power in the hands of highly intransparent or even unelected institutions (e.g. EU or international contracts)

And various other stuff. E.g. some of the stuff you can hear on e.g. party congresses of the German "Die Linke".

[sickofparadox]

Are you by any chance a European?

[behringer]

He said not to call people names, dummy.