logoalt Hacker News

raincoletoday at 9:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

> His unit has successfully prosecuted about 750 hate speech cases over the last four years.

It's just one of the sixteen units that prosecute 'hate speech' cases in Germany.

Oh, by the way, the Chancellor himself is calling to demolish online anonymity completely: https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20...

But sure, abuse of power is so rare. Nothing to see here.


Replies

ben_wtoday at 10:01 AM

> > His unit has successfully prosecuted about 750 hate speech cases over the last four years.

> But sure, abuse of power is so rare. Nothing to see here.

This would make your point if those hate speech cases were all the same as your Andy Grote example.

Otherwise it's like pointing at one defendant winning a road traffic law case due to dashcam footage showing the police were making things up, as evidence that all road traffic law prosecutions are abusing power.

shafyytoday at 11:17 AM

The current chancellor is also a right-conservative jabroni, so don't equate what he demands to what the German people want.

show 1 reply