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In Germany, sweeping slurs against women can be punishable as incitement to hatred.

Communications that are considered illegal include posts in which women are slandered and insulted in a sexualized manner, or publicly encouraged to send nude photos. The authorities also flagged posts that advocated rape or sexual assault or that distributed videos of torture or killing.

The raids concentrated on suspects who had set their sights on well-known women like female politicians

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[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

online violence

So they finally figured out how to punch someone over standard TCP/IP! Sweet.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Oh thats easy. You photoshop a porn image with them and a girl they work with.

And email it to their wife.

[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey Lemmy, can you please stop with the "if I can't insult and verbally abuse others, then this is literally Soviet Russia" attitude?

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Ok

“if I can’t insult and verbally abuse others, then this is literally ... non nazi Germany."

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Check out this poophead!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Dope. Hopefully they actually got the worst offenders.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

When "send nudes" gets you arrested

(It’s a good thing though, some comment sections are completely insane)

[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's not enough. But let's try it out.

@GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip: Send nudes!

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am a dude, it needs to be directed at women I’m pretty sure

[–] ChrislyBear@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Let's be honest, there are ONLY dudes on Lemmy.

[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Concerning. But we all know there's more to it.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, but they weren't arraigned as far as the article suggests. Also the language of the article is really suggestive. Intolerance can not be tolerated, and perhaps the police coming around to have a chat with intolerant people is a good thing. It's concerning it happened but yeah, doubtful that's the full story.

[–] hackerwacker@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As any liberal knows, completely arbitrary law enforcement is the basic building block of a functioning democracy.

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

You really just need laws that allow you to put anyone you don't like in jail

[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Gommunist Gyna, people are arrested for the things they say about politicians.

In Democratic Germany, people's rights to free political speech are protected.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

What are you trying to say? I can't get past the internal contradictions of this statement ......

Yes, china does moderate the speech of it's citizens. In theory this is part of the state's duty to protect the cohesiveness of their political and cultural hierarchy. This is fairly standard in any socialized nation that's confronting reactionary influence.

In this way, wouldn't Germany utilizing the state's power to protect it's vulnerable populations from reactionary culture wars be a win in the eyes of leftist?

Yes we can all laugh at the irony of the situation, but it seems most people commenting are taking a very libertarian attitude for the sake of misogyny.