The stuff at Welt Online is worse - hell, BILD - who could forget Bild?? The most poisonous shit is published on that website.
Perhaps it was reported in the news? Perhaps it received one too many re-tweets? Perhaps it was an account that could be easily tracked down and shut for maximum publicity? Perhaps by over-reaching slightly - choosing a fairly innocuous statement (compared to the crap in Bild, for example) then they are setting a tidy precedent for far worse stuff. As if to say: this, and anything worse could be punished.
But yes - very odd. I don't know the hate-speech laws in Germany. In Canada this would be unlikely to get you banned - and we don't have complete free speech in Canada (common misconception is that we do). Hate speech is not protected, and hate-speech is a vaguely defined idea.
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Date: 2012-06-21 05:13 pm (UTC)The stuff at Welt Online is worse - hell, BILD - who could forget Bild?? The most poisonous shit is published on that website.
Perhaps it was reported in the news? Perhaps it received one too many re-tweets? Perhaps it was an account that could be easily tracked down and shut for maximum publicity? Perhaps by over-reaching slightly - choosing a fairly innocuous statement (compared to the crap in Bild, for example) then they are setting a tidy precedent for far worse stuff. As if to say: this, and anything worse could be punished.
But yes - very odd. I don't know the hate-speech laws in Germany. In Canada this would be unlikely to get you banned - and we don't have complete free speech in Canada (common misconception is that we do). Hate speech is not protected, and hate-speech is a vaguely defined idea.