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My guess is that Germany will lose its web hosts as no one will trust to host anything in that country if this passes.
My guess is that Germany will lose its web hosts as no one will trust to host anything in that country if this passes.
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Actually it translated to "have to", not "should" (which would more properly be "sollten").
Better "will have to" .. "if the law is passed".
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uh, if you actually read the links you posted...from the second article one of the people visited by law enforcement said "In my opinion, gasify everyone" [google translate I must admit, but there were plenty of quotes like this that I think its safe to say this is the intended tone] I don't see how there is any justifiable grounds to talk about killing people with gas in any context, particularly not in this context…
That's the examples they put in press releases. Just for a sanity check on what tiny harmless things are punished by those laws: https://www.vice.com/de/article/8xe7jg/kuchen-tv-volksverhet... A Youtuber made a video about an incidents between students where one made a racist joke. He [the Youtuber] said about that joke "that wasn't a bad joke" and got convicted for Volksverhetzung - one of the harshest crimes we hav…
That there is no "free speech" in Germany in respect to hatespeech has been the case pre-internet too. I'm not a big fan of NetzDG, but I also have to say that I expected much worse censorship-wise when it passed and I haven't heard of gross misapplications of it so far. If anything Facebook and Twitter show that you can still post a lot of hatespeech despite its existence.
"Sollen" translates to "should" and not "will" That means there is a element of uncertainty there whether they actually will.
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That's the examples they put in press releases. Just for a sanity check on what tiny harmless things are punished by those laws: https://www.vice.com/de/article/8xe7jg/kuchen-tv-volksverhet... A Youtuber made a video about an incidents between students where one made a racist joke. He [the Youtuber] said about that joke "that wasn't a bad joke" and got convicted for Volksverhetzung - one of the harshest crimes we hav…
This has nothing to do with NetzDG. If he would have spewed something of that caliber openly on the street he would've had to expect the same thing (depending on where in Germany of course). That there is no "free speech" in Germany in respect to hatespeech has been the case pre-internet too. I'm not a big fan of NetzDG, but I also have to say that I expected much worse censorship-wise when it passed and I haven't he…
My understanding is that the privacy restrictions are largely the result of half the country having lived under the Statsi, and thus being extremely weary of government eyes. Here it’s out in the open!