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Germany's crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech and events has also impacted anti-war Jewish activists and vigils organized by Jewish groups. [55] On 14 May and 1 July 2024, Björn Höcke, the leader of the AfD in Thuringia was fined by a courts for using the Nazi slogan "Everything for Germany". [56] [57] [58] [59]
Internet censorship in Germany is practised directly and indirectly through various laws and court decisions. [1] German law provides for freedom of speech and press with several exceptions, including what The Guardian has called "some of the world's toughest laws around hate speech ". [ 2 ]
The Federal Republic of Germany guarantees freedom of speech, expression, and opinion to its citizens as per Article 5 of the constitution.Despite this, censorship of various materials has taken place since the Allied occupation after World War II and continues to take place in Germany in various forms due to a limiting provision in Article 5, Paragraph 2 of the constitution.
Politico has called Germany's hate speech laws "arguably the strictest anywhere in the Western world". [166] Laws which have led to censorship or chilling effects online include NetzDG and a type of ancillary copyright for press publishers which is a model for a pan-EU taxation proposal as of 2018. [167] Outdoor assemblies must be registered ...
The law has been criticised both locally and internationally by politicians, human rights groups, journalists and academics for incentivising social media platforms to pre-emptively censor valid and lawful expression, and making them the arbiter of what constitutes free expression and curtailing freedom of speech in Germany.
BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Olaf Scholz will call on Germany's parliament on Monday to declare it has no confidence in him, taking the first formal step towards securing an early national ...
At the same time, the Norwegian Constitution guarantees the right to free speech, and there has been an ongoing public and judicial debate over where the right balance between the ban against hate speech and the right to free speech lies. Norwegian courts have been restrictive in the use of the hate speech law and only a few persons have been ...
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