The problem is that we generally have freedom of speech in everyday life. I mean guess how often I was insulted and have insulted people here? I and my "victim" could've gone to the police at any time. But we don't. Same when you insult the local politician at a rally. You are free to insult him and life continues for everyone.
So essentially we have those laws, but they are rarely releveant.
A few years ago a (now total leftist) comedian (Böhmermann) called Erdogan (president of Turkey) a "goat fucker". This lead to § 103 StGB (insulting foreign leaders/kings/....) to be removed from our constitution. Basically allowing "Hey, you can insult others". So honestly we were moving towards a more "freedom of speech" society.
Of course now looking at which political side is in the government, there's no surprise that we are moving back to that. The GDR was a always a leftists dream.
And today I read that they plan to use an "AI" developed in Germany to try to autodetect hate speech online and persecute the authors.
Understand that Germany and freedom of speech have never gone together in its history. And really this goes for Europe as a whole.
The problem is that we generally have freedom of speech in everyday life. I mean guess how often I was insulted and have insulted people here? I and my "victim" could've gone to the police at any time. But we don't. Same when you insult the local politician at a rally. You are free to insult him and life continues for everyone.
So essentially we have those laws, but they are rarely releveant.
A few years ago a (now total leftist) comedian (Böhmermann) called Erdogan (president of Turkey) a "goat fucker". This lead to § 103 StGB (insulting foreign leaders/kings/....) to be removed from our constitution. Basically allowing "Hey, you can insult others". So honestly we were moving towards a more "freedom of speech" society.
Of course now looking at which political side is in the government, there's no surprise that we are moving back to that. The GDR was a always a leftists dream.
And today I read that they plan to use an "AI" developed in Germany to try to autodetect hate speech online and persecute the authors.