American broadcaster CBS followed German police who attacked their homes for speech crimes, including posting “racist cartoons” on the internet.
Days after CBS's, especially on the issue of freedom of speech, as US Vice President JD Vance failed to withstand Germany and other European states as Western freedom ideals. 60 minutes News Magazine will broadcast footage of police attacks on social media posts and interviews with prosecutors defending strict practices.
“On Tuesday morning, I was with the state police as they attacked this apartment in northwest Germany at 6:01. Six armed officers searched the suspect's home and seized a laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say these electronic devices may have been used to commit crimes, crimes. Post racist cartoons online.” 60 minutes The described anchor Shalin Alfonsi.
Unlike the US, where the first revision prevents citizens from being arrested for so-called “hate speech,” that's a very different story in Germany.
Local prosecutor I said American broadcasters currently have a 16 dedicated police task force monitoring “hate speech” on the German web, and file around 3,500 cases a year. Prosecutor Frank Michael Laue told the news programme that his unit alone has successfully secured 750 speech crime convictions over the past four years.
Prosecutor Dr. Massau Fink said many of those arrested for online speech crimes believe their posts protect free speech.
Prosecutors explained that German people could be imprisoned for the shaming of the people, including politicians. They argued that in most cases, criminals are fined and sometimes seized devices.
“I'm sorry to use comments like, “You're AB's son,” but these words have nothing to do with political debate or contributions to debate,” Fink argued.
They say their task force has access to special software to target anonymous users who violate the Speech Act, but investigators will access government data to hunt down thought criminals. Ta.
The German programme on censored police equipment comes just days after Vice President JD Vance expanded European countries because he maintained freedom of speech and did not compare tactics to the Soviet Union.
“The threat I most worry about Europe is not Russia, not China, not other outside actors. What I'm worried about is the threat from within. Europe's most fundamental values A setback from some of the following: values shared with the United States of America,” Vance said at the Munich Security Conference last week.
Vance also criticized Berlin's political establishment for a “firewall” on an alternative to anti-mass transition for the German party, the second-strongest in the vote, ahead of next week's federal election. In addition to refusing to work with the party, German politicians are calling for the AFD to be banned entirely against the supposed extremism.
Vance's speech, along with Left Prime Minister Olaf Scholz, sparked anger among German politicians declare Berlin “does not accept outsiders who intervene in our democracy.”
Foreign Minister Analena Bearbock of the Green Party on the far left I defended What she called a “resilient democracy” is not only a government stands up against external enemies against democracies such as Russia, but also “internal enemies such as Islamists and “extremely extreme right.” He also stands up to the following.
Even top CBS anchor Margaret Brennan appears to be on his side with the current German censorship model, and Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime was “weaponized” to carry out the Holocaust during World War II. It suggests that freedom of speech has been “weaponized.”
But Vance's call to protect civil liberties had defenders in Germany. In national records papers, Dieweltcolumnist Andreas Rosenfelder I made a comment The warning of aggression rightsist is, “It is a real scandal to encounter such deaf ears with little curiosity among German opinion leaders.”
“They will do well to recognize their own best interests [Vance’s] Rather than turning it into an enemy attack, it's an hour of truth speech,” he added.
According to 60 minutes Programme Vice President Vance said Monday: This is Orwellian and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this insanity. ”
