>Grapperhaus wanted to prevent the distribution of photos of the sexual abuse of children
and if someone gets arrested for a thoughtcrime or hatespeak offense, the evidence obtained from their chat logs will be inadmissible in court, right? :)
and if someone gets arrested for a thoughtcrime or hatespeak offense, the evidence obtained from their chat logs will be inadmissible in court, right? :)
The system has been.in place for decades and the same procedures must be followed for every private conversation
Besides: do you know someone that was arrested for a thoughtcrime in the Netherlands?
>A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a man to 30 days in jail for insulting the king on Facebook.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36799639?
Plus, The Netherlands has quite a few restrictions on free speech in general. But I guess it depends on how you define "thought crimes"
That's not tough crime.
You can't insult the President of Republic here in Italy too, because it represent Italy, you're insulting the institution, it's against the law.
A though crime, as per Orwell - who invented the term - definition. is someone who goes against the status quo and get punished for expressing an unorthodox idea or doubting the system. You don't get a sentence usually, you simply disappear. Or get hunged in public as an example.
What you just reported is a plain straight law infringement. Just like a robbery.
A though crime would be being arrested for protesting against the US Supreme court and their vote to cancel abortion rights.
But I don't get your last point. If it was illegal to protest/criticize the Supreme court, and someone did, wouldn't that be straight law infringement too? I don't think they are mutually exclusive.
Insulting an institution, especially that of the Crown, is a form of protest and can be a way to express an unorthodox idea or a rejection of the system.
It's akin to going to jail for insulting Trump, Biden or Bush because you insulted the American presidency. To me that's just unsettling.
the nebulous laws are in place, like in every other country that had suddenly become very concerned about "protecting the children" in recent years