Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online, testing the limits of free speech on the internet.
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Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online, testing the limits of free speech on the internet.
Video "challenges" that ask viewers to film themselves performing dangerous acts can go viral rapidly through social media platform algorithms and user interest, and lead to injuries and deaths.
The new bill in parliament aims to bring further restrictions on freedom of expression online and on social media as elections approach, experts say.
After thousands of people protested on social media for a week against Facebook’s deletion of an anti-war video by the Socialist Equality Party (SGP), the tech company restored the video on Sunday.
On Saturday, Facebook deleted a video posted by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany opposing the German government’s participation in the US-led Nato proxy war against Russia in...