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Re:German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in... by arrowsmith on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:06AM (#48473550)
See also: Germany's leader filing hundreds of criminal complaints against people who insult him on social media:

https://rmx.news/article/germany-chancellor-merz-quietly-fil...

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Re:German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in... by smcin on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:26AM (#48474180)
Shocking, only 10 short years since this (when Merkel was Chancellor): Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian Jan Böhmermann (Germany's equivalent of John Stewart) over Erdoğan poem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474967

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Re:German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in... by arrowsmith on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:20AM (#48474628)
Which led to a British journalist holding an "offensive poems about Erdogan" contest, which was won by Boris Johnson:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johns...

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Re:German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in... by CarlitosHighway on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:07AM (#48474021)
"Germany's leader" - that's how you know it's a low-brow article.
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Re:German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in... by rpdillon on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:28AM (#48474192)
Except the article doesn't say that, only the comment here does.
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