Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media

Found on New York Times on Wednesday, 21 June 2017
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“The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action,” Holger Münch, president of the Federal Criminal Police Office, said in a statement. “Our free society must not allow a climate of fear, threat, criminal violence and violence either on the street or on the internet.”

The raids come as Germans are debating the draft of a new social media law aimed at cracking down on hate speech, a measure that an array of experts said was unconstitutional at a parliamentary hearing on Monday.

It's not much of a "free society" when companies delete posts without court order. Unqualified personal police postings and remove what they consider illegal, even though it would be legal. That's what happens when politicians enter virgin territory.