| People have been fined and their apartments searched for insulting politicians online. The fact that other Europeans aren't complaining about this makes it worse, because it implies that the society condones this behavior. I'm sorry, but in no sensible society should the police raid someone's home because he called the deputy chancellor (think vice president) a dumbass on Twitter ("dummkopf"). Or more recently: police started investigating a man for calling Merz (the chancellor) Pinocchio: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/german-police-probe-face... >but not other forms of expression. France - fined for calling Macron a "scumbag": https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2023/04/23/french... UK - teenager sentenced for a "hate crime" for posting rap lyrics on Instagram: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921 This applies to other European countries too. |