In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.

This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 84 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Germany's been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a "penis" on social media.) It's fucked.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Specifically the person got raided on a wrong address, so actually his ex partner and child got raided, the raid came after the owner of the twitter account already had identified himself to the police and admitted to the "crime".

There was absolutely no possible investigative reason for the raid. It was purely meant to intimidate someone for an insuot that is rather mild in German language

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least it got Streisanded and now everyone knows Andy is 1 pimmel

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who is Andy... Please full name so it can get cached by search engines.

Useless regime whores should be named properly

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Andy Grote is a dick

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago

Andy Grote is a lil bitch too, who used the occupation force against German citizens for no reason it seems.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That one at least got cleared up in court, and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that (not to mention the societal backlash). In many cases it's even legitimate to have police involved, like with wild racist deathwishes in Facebook… but they indeed went way too far in too many cases.

Surely some more Chatcontrol and big cousin Palantir will fix that, right? …right? 🫠

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that

The funniest bit was when they repeatedly painted over a mural that cited the insult in the dark of the night.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago

Why would any prosecutor or judge approve this?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

UK also arrests people for online comments

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 2 days ago

They arrest people for wearing tshirts too.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Do they? When did this happen? I know they arrest people for "Plasticine Action" T-shirts.

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