When publishing a historical picture of two totalitarians (who represent violent, supremacist ideologies) is deemed as ”offensive” by the dhimmi state, because it draws attention to that state’s dhimmifide policies.
Beyond the pale that German journalist, Michael Stürzenberger, is facing jail time for posting pictures that I’ve posted numerous times like this one:
This goes to show just how politicized ”hate speech” laws actually are, they should have no place in our modern liberal societies, being little more than ”blasphemy laws” for the state. Every tyrannical power has used them for the purpose of controlling thought and criticism of the regime, the German state has learned nothing. Flemming Rose in a speech delivered before the media in Helsinki spoke exactly on this topic.
Germany: Full Censorship Now Official
Courts Rewrite History
- Germany has made no secret of its desire to see its new law copied by the rest of the EU.
- When employees of social media companies are appointed as the state’s private thought police and given the power to shape the form of current political and cultural discourse by deciding who shall be allowed to speak and what to say, and who shall be shut down, free speech becomes nothing more than a fairy tale. Or is that perhaps the point?
- Perhaps fighting “Islamophobia” is now a higher priority than fighting terrorism?
A new German law introducing state censorship on social media platforms came into effect on October 1, 2017. The new law requires social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, to censor their users on behalf of the German state. Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online “criminal offenses” such as libel, slander, defamation or incitement, within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint — regardless of whether or the content is accurate or not. Social media companies receive seven days for more complicated cases. If they fail to do so, the German government can fine them up to 50 million euros for failing to comply with the law.
This state censorship makes free speech subject to the arbitrary decisions of corporate entities that are likely to censor more than absolutely necessary, rather than risk a crushing fine. When employees of social media companies are appointed as the state’s private thought police and given the power to shape the form of current political and cultural discourse by deciding who shall be allowed to speak and what to say, and who shall be shut down, free speech becomes nothing more than a fairy tale. Or is that perhaps the point?
Meanwhile, the district court in Munich recently sentenced a German journalist, Michael Stürzenberger, to six months in jail for posting on his Facebook page a historical photo of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, shaking the hand of a senior Nazi official in Berlin in 1941. The prosecution accused Stürzenberger of “inciting hatred towards Islam” and “denigrating Islam” by publishing the photograph. The court found Stürzenberger guilty of “disseminating the propaganda of anti-constitutional organizations”. While the mutual admiration that once existed between al-Husseini and German Nazis is an undisputed historical fact, now evidently history is being rewritten by German courts. Stürzenberger has appealed the verdict
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