Re:In Germany, online hate speech has real world consequences
by yodsanklai on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:03AM
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> you can even say something like that in first person if it is satire or provocative art
I can give you a counter-example (although in France where we have similar laws). Patrick Sebastien, who is a well-known French humorist has been convicted for exactly that (he impersonated Jean-Marie Le Pen, far right politician, in a satire song "casser du noir").
I can give you a counter-example (although in France where we have similar laws). Patrick Sebastien, who is a well-known French humorist has been convicted for exactly that (he impersonated Jean-Marie Le Pen, far right politician, in a satire song "casser du noir").
Sorry but I can only find a reference to a French article http://www.liberation.fr/medias/1996/03/13/patrick-sebastien...
The judges concluded that this was indeed an incitation to racial hatred, which is illegal in France.