Vice President JD Vance denounced German prosecutors on Monday for “criminating speeches” including reposting false information, warning that the trend of worsening “stressing” relations between Europe and the United States did.
Vance, 40, denounced the prosecutors who took part in the Fawn function by CBS News' “60 Minutes.” You can easily commit hate crimes online in Germany – Just three days after the Vice President slammed European leaders for objecting in a speech at a Munich security conference, restraining freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
“It's not a crime to humiliate someone, and criminalizing a speech would put a real burden on our relationship with Europe,” Vance said. Posted on x.
“This is Orwellian and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this insanity,” the Vice President said, “60 minutes” by Dr. Massau Fink, Svenja Mainhouse and Frank Michael Laue. We shared a video of an interview with correspondent Shalin Alfonsi.
“Is it a crime to humiliate someone in public?” I asked Alfonsi.
“Yes,” the state prosecutor said.
“And is it a crime to humiliate them online?” a reporter followed up.
“Yes,” they replied.
“If you humiliate someone on the internet, the crime can be even higher,” Fink added. “Because it stays there on the internet.”
In Germany, netizens can be jailed for spreading gossip and fake quotes on social media by reposting social media, allowing repeat offenders to buy prison time.
“In the case of reposts, it's also a crime, because readers can't tell if they invented this or just repost this,” explained Meininghaus. “It's the same for us.”
But the US is prosecuting hate crimes Law It is used as a reinforcement of sentencing in response to convictions for violent threats and behaviour.
For example, last June, a 42-year-old man from Washington state was He was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Because they are threatening to throw black employees of the Olympia-based Social Security Agency.
Other non-violent hate crime cases usually involve schemes that violate civil rights
Far-right social media influencer Douglas McKee was slapped for seven months in 2023 for targeting black supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and said he could send text messages by vote in the 2016 election. I misrepresented it in a Twitter post.
German prosecutors told CBS News that their own hate speech laws were born following the assassination of politician Walter Lübcke by neo-Nazi extremists in 2019.
“People with a very correct political worldview began to hate him on the internet. They began to insult him. They began to incite people to kill him. And that was the case. It lasted for about four years,” Meininghaus said of his reaction to Lubukke's remarks in support of then-Chair Minister Angela Merkel's tolerant immigration stance.
In a speech in Munich on Friday, Vance arrested Christian for citing the cancellation of a presidential election in Romania, praying for an external external clinic at an abortion clinic in the UK, citing “hateful content.” torn to officials in the European Union and elsewhere.
“The threat I'm most concerned about Europe is not Russia, not China, not other outside actors,” he said. “What I'm worried about is the retreat of Europe from the threats from within, some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States.”
“I believe that I am deeply safe if you fear the voices, opinions and consciences that guide your own people,” Vance added. “Censoring your enemy or putting them in prison will not win a democratic mission.”
