[1] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/digitec/hassrede-bund...
Though the last paragraph cites a politcian saying something along the lines of this can't stand as it is and needs further discussion and changes, otherwise it would be contested in germanys highest court and canceled there.
edit: 2nd link [2] https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/hetze-und-drohungen...
edit: 3rd link [3] https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/facebook-twitter-co-mill...
Sure, we've routinely downweighted tons of election campaign stories, which is what most policy proposals from candidates are. That includes Elizabeth's among many others. I could see making an exception for proposals that come with detailed arguments and make a genuinely new contribution to debate on something that's on topic here. But most aren't anything like that, they're just attempts to gain attention for a candidate.
This is not an election story or a random politician drafting a bill, but a draft by the relevant ministry of the elected government in Germany. It raises important questions about the relationship between large multinational companies and law enforcement in a country other than the US, with quite a bit of nuance and potential for in-depth discussion.
I was just in the process of replying to your comment and question when you replaced it with that snarky one-liner.
HN is a highly international community. Plenty of international stories appear here. Nor does HN being an English-language site imply any disrespect for other languages, including the wonderful German language. Quite the contrary.
In this case the language issue is secondary anyhow, since "politician is working on drafting a bill" is an even less substantive story than "politician introduces bill", which is one of the classics of off-topicness for HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). We would have demoted the story regardless of the language it was written in.
In cases like this, we've learned that there's no harm in waiting for a story to actually become real before having a thread about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...