Tell HN: German law “against hate speech” passed
- Threats on the internet against people or things are now punishable with up to three years
- Insults on the internet: two years
- Politicians and jews are now under increased special protection. Crimes against them get another bonus
- Approval of past or future crimes also illegal
Big social networks are now not only obligated to remove any suspected cases (like before) but have to report them to the BKA (~FBI) with the IP-adress, port-number, name, adress and means to access their data (the password requirement was changed after the initial draft) of the suspect. That does include things like a like button and emojis, not only written text. In particular this applies to all suspected cases. There will be a central register of all those suspected cases, essentially being a list of the political opposition.
English information on this is sparse, as expected.
See [0] for official information. I don't even dare to link critical ones.
[0]: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/gesetz-gegen-hasskriminalitaet-1722896