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Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’
(www.theguardian.com)
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I've been surprised that some western countries have laws like this. A French woman has also been fined for insulting Macron.
The public prosecution department in Germany let someone's home got searched because he called a conservative politician "Du bist so 1 Pimmel" ("you are such a penis") via Twitter.
At the same time the public prosecution department in Germany regularly refuses to take action against hate speech when aimed against other people. Even other politicians.
And since many people do not really understand our jurisdiction, they believe it is enough to protest against the police.
I wonder what their response would be to a bunch of lemmings outside the reach of Germany's laws doing the same?
It's almost like making laws against free speech is a slippery slope.
It can be, but not all speech is free, not even in the US.
Them's fighting words.
Nope. There's a bunch of thoughts and speech acts that don't contribute anything. There's a reason the swastika and other Nazi codes/insignia are outlawed in Germany. "We just need to exterminate the Jews for a better life for everyone else" is similarly outlawed under an incitement to genocide clause.
There are very good reasons to put barriers on absolutely free speech.
What i meant was actually, fighting words are not protected under free speech in the USA. Not disagreeing, just making a funny.
Not just that, slander, defamation, hate speech, harassment can all be speech yet you can get sued and will have to pay for that sort of speech. Actually the US is basically the same as most other western countries, the „only the US allows free speech“-simpletons couldn’t be further off.
To be exact, there is a difference between insult and defamation
I'm not too sure about the technicalities either, so I'm not sure if insulting is also a problem.
But declamation requires saying something false to ruin the other person's reputation, and it's actually a crime even against normal people
*defamation
Declamation is a form of rhetoric.