The following report is by the Associated Press, published on March 7th, 2024:
German law enforcement authorities on Thursday carried out raids across Germany against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech on the internet as part of of a coordinated push to shine the spotlight on online violence against women.
Police raided homes and interrogated 45 suspects in 11 states early Thursday. None of the suspects were detained, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office said in a statement. Another 37 suspects were already searched and interrogated in previous weeks and months.
The raids were part of a “combating misogyny on the internet” day of action, which comes one day before International’s Women’s Day.
“We are observing how online platforms are increasingly becoming the scene of hate, harassment and discrimination, also targeting especially women,” said Holger Muench, the head of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office.
Today’s day of action makes it clear: we consciously go into the spaces of hate, identify acts and perpetrators, take them out of anonymity and bring them to accountability.
Muench said the initiative grew out of a joint project by investigators and prosecutors two years ago who worked “intensively on the prosecution of misogyny online.”
Before Thursday’s raids, investigators had been working for a long time to identify alleged perpetrators hiding behind the anonymity offered by the internet.
In Germany, sweeping slurs against women can be punishable as incitement to hatred.
In preparation for the raids, authorities scoured the internet for posts that potentially broke anti-misogyny laws and attempted to identify the authors. The names of the suspects will then be forwarded to the public prosecutor’s offices in the states where they live in order to decide whether to proceed or not with criminal prosecution.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said women and girls are more likely to be victims of hate crimes and online bullying. “We need very clear signs of a stop here. Misogynistic hate crime must lead to charges and convictions, and word should get around,” Faeser said.
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 – often the target of misogynistic hatred online. Investigators also sought out suspects who have threatened women not in the public eye.
Despite the law, online posts that degrade or threaten women often go unpunished, and many women say they avoid public attention fearing online attacks.
Interior Minister Faeser encouraged women to report all incidents in order to bring those responsible to justice.
“When the police show up at the door, it is a very effective signal: for the perpetrators who have felt safe in supposed anonymity, but especially for the affected women,” Faeser said.
The raids were carried out in a coordinated effort by Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime in Frankfurt, the Federal Criminal Police Office, and several state law enforcement agencies.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
You can read more details about this is in the official government press release and filing.
I know this is a few months old but I just heard about this recently and I figured I’d share it. I mean, my goodness gracious: this is some grade-A Orwellian nightmare stuff right here.
Proverbs 26:18 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, [19] So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
We don’t know what these statements were, but instead we are told that these men were rounded up in advance of International’s Women’s Day, like it’s some kind of hunting game and these are the prey on display in sacrifice to their divine feminist goddesses.
As dark as this is, the lesson here is whether you like it or not is to be careful what you say online, now more than ever.
Proverbs 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
[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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Would this be conforming to the Antichrist system of communist speech censorship?
Aren’t we suppose to hinder ?
Do you follow any Canadian channels that you would recommend?
I hate that the government is using women as a smokescreen to take away freedoms just like they use children in school shootings, terrorist (so-called), “national security”, sodomite movement ect. just to take away freedoms:( their never content with what they have… their greedy pigs!
Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. From the true and only word of God the KJV Bible.
Would you or anyone happen to know where to find charcoal?
There are already laws on the books that cover almost everything. ‘Hate’ laws is ridiculous. Crime of any sort emanates from hate – does it not?