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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by majewsky on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:05AM (#20612512)
There is a middle ground. Germany is choke full of jokes and even hateful comments about politicians like Angela Merkel, and no one went to prison for it as far as I'm aware.

But intentionally inciteful hate speech against racial/religious minorities can (and occasionally does) lead to fines or jailtime.

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by deepbreath on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:39AM (#20612659)
Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by kaibee on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:32AM (#20612884)
Fortunately, with the benefit of hindsight, we can know how this story actually played out.

> On 15 April Merkel announced in a press conference that the German government had approved Böhmermann's criminal prosecution, but would abolish the respective paragraph 103 of the German penal code before 2018. Intense criticism followed the Chancellor's decision, with speculation that she decided to allow the prosecution in order to protect Germany's refugee deal with Turkey.[3] The case was dropped in October 2016.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by Hitton on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:27AM (#20614918)
Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by repolfx on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:23AM (#20613151)
So what happens when Germany gets a Chancellor that comes from a racial minority?

We already know the answer: they will claim that attacks on them are racially motivated (regardless of the truth) and shut them down. Plenty of examples of that sort of thing going on today outside of politics.

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by mcv on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:43AM (#20613273)
Probably depends on whether the attacks focus on the chancellor's race or on their policy. Criticising the government's policy is absolutely vital to a democracy. Criticising someone's skin colour is not.

Though if the target is a politician, I'd expect them to prefer to err on the side of allowing it.

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by ptah on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:50AM (#20614171)
they would deal with racism probably the same as obama did when he was in office and was subject to such attacks