The following report is by Breitbart:
Earlier this week, the Federal Ministry of Justice called for the creation of a “law against digital violence” under which German courts could ban social media accounts of individual users and even force companies to unmask their identity if the account was anonymous.
The proposal would target those who are deemed to be “notorious violators in the digital space”, particularly anonymous trolls, the Tagesschau broadcaster reported.
The ministry said that the drastic measure of a court banning an account should only be taken if other methods, such as censoring an individual post, have been exhausted. The government agency went on to say that the state bans should only be put into place for a “reasonable period of time.”
Ulf Buermeyer, a lawyer and chairman of the dubiously named Society for Civil Liberties, celebrated the government’s censorious plans, saying: “Why should you be able to offend someone?”.
Buermeyer argued that the measure was necessary as merely deleting an offensive post has little impact on deterrence as it often has spread widely on the internet before being taken down and therefore blocking accounts may be more impactful in preventing such speech.
The legislation would come on top of the draconian Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) in Germany, which already requires social media companies to remove “illegal content” such as hate speech or insults.
Earlier this month, the Federal Ministry of Justice announced that it had opened up legal proceedings against Twitter over alleged failures to censor hate speech and insults on its platform under the NetzDG legislation, which carries with it a potential fine of up to 50 million euros.
The Internet is not a law-free space. Platforms must not simply accept it if their services are misused to distribute criminal content.
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said.
Germany is home to some of the strictest speech codes in the Western world, with it being illegal in the country — on penalty of up to two years in prison — to “violate the human dignity” of others by “insulting, maliciously maligning or defaming a group defined by its national, racial, religious or ethnic origin, ideology, disability or sexual orientation.”
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As I have noted in other reports, censorship in 2023 was only poised to rise at rapid rates even more than it has, and this is yet another example of it.
[25] How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? [26] Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? Job 6:25-26
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Boy, these people do damn themselves, & any of their people foolish or ignorant enough to follow them! But this is really no surprise, as Germany has hounded, fined, jailed & removed children from Christian homeschooling families for some time, with such immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. rarely granted permission, & since the Obama administration: none.
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Neither Trump championing these people, nor people like Lisa Miller who went to prison for saving her own birth child from awarded custody to a same sex known abuser (and former partner, legal ‘spouse’) by spiriting her from the country when activist judges refused to shield the suddenly suicidal 4-year-old from overnight, unsupervised ‘visitation’. It’s like any other state-promoted sin & demoralization, getting saved & withdrawing from the delusion & deception is not an option. Wickedness.
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He’d rather give amnesty & passes to drug dealing families like those opioid people, & old cronies.
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No doubt sharing the Gospel or quoting Bible will be ‘heresy’/ ‘trolling’ or hate speech, racist, or violent. As the birthplace of textual criticism, that should really be no surprise to anyone knowing the history or particulars of the Bible version issue.
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Round two of chastening for Germany as a quintessential example of a 2 Peter 2-3, Jude type nation….even several rounds ahead of the U.S. though they love to play the victim. Rome certainly has her puppets & her whipping boys, doesn’t she?
All the “Biden” policies aren’t actually his, but Barack Obama’s, who’s currently “serving” an illegal third term. His failed Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland is now Biden’s Attorney General. Practically all of the Obama judges are still firmly in place and running the country.