US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by inigyou on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:31AM (#49068011)

Insulting people is a crime in Germany. If you said "Hitler was a poopy head" that'd be illegal. But they wouldn't bother to enforce that. If you say it about a real person, they can press charges.

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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by horrorente on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:13AM (#49069252)

fyi: insult is a so called "Antragsdelikt". That means authorities can only press charges when the victim files an official complaint. Otherwise they can't do anything.

Which also means they wouldn't be able to do anything about you saying "Hitler was a poopy head".

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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by rightbyte on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:10PM (#49072618)

Does defamation laws apply to deceased too?

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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by inigyou on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:32PM (#49072941)

There's a separate law against insulting a dead person.

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