Europe

More and more lawyers, politicians and journalists are criticising the German government’s hotline policy of establishing reporting centres against “hate and agitation on the internet.” These centres are often funded by the state or are even state-run. But there are worries that opinion is too often mistaken for hate. In some cases, 6 am police raids have reportedly occurred at the homes of ordinary citizens who posted memes critical of the government (“insulting politicians”) during Germany’s previous so-called traffic light coalition government. Two such reporting NGOs in Germany are now labelled as so-called “trusted flaggers”. As part of the EU’s…

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