[ April 15, 2024 ]
America, the world’s first government based on individual rights and personal liberty, should be on the forefront of the defense of freedom of speech across the world, leading the way, the light among nations, the “shining city on a hill.” Instead, these thumb-sucking quislings inculcated by cultural and academic institutions led by left-wing anti-intellectual primitives have become the running dogs for this century’s totalitarians. These little bastards need a history lesson.
The idea that Mark Zuckerberg would take his marching orders from Angela Merkel demands investigation.
Worse still, Facebook, an American major communications company, sent Joel Kaplan, its vice president of public policy, to Pakistan to assure Pakistan’s Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan that Facebook would adhere to Islamic law.
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My colleagues and I have had our First Amendment rights abridged, withdrawn and violated in the information battle-space, the war of ideas. Now these social media giants, run by uniformly left-wing corporate managers, are censoring political parties. This evokes the worst totalitarians regimes in the world and the history of the world.
Germany’s far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AFD) is accusing the government of censorship after a new hate speech law led to some of its anti-Islamic social media posts vanishing.
Beatrix von Storch, AFD’s deputy leader, took to Facebook Monday to complain that her Twitter account had been temporarily locked and her tweets deleted. The politician had tweeted that police in Cologne were pandering to “gang-raping hordes” of Muslim men because the force tweeted a New Year’s message in Arabic. She later re-posted the message on Facebook, where it was also taken down.
“What the hell is happening in this country? Why is an official police site tweeting in Arabic? Do you think it is to appease the barbaric, gang-raping hordes of Muslim men?” von Storch wrote.
Beatrix von Storch and Georg Pazderski of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) reacts for a draw level during the second election round.
The message was deemed inappropriate in the context of a German law passed last year that requires social media platforms to remove hate speech within 24 hours. The law went into effect Monday, and Germany can now fine any social media company that does not remove posts with messages violating that law.
#PolizeiNRW #Köln #Leverkusen
تتمنى الشرطة في كولن لجميع الناس في منطقة كولن وليفركوزن والمدن الأخرى إحتفالاً سعيداً بعام 2018 الجديد.
https://t.co/G5erMWFNQyرأس السنة 2017 ـ لمزيد المعلومات: # pic.twitter.com/BGxs4Kew7K— Polizei NRW K (@polizei_nrw_k) December 31, 2017
The removal of von Storch’s posts appeared to be the first high-profile case under the law. Police have also filed a complaint against von Storch for incitement, but it is unclear whether prosecutors will follow through with an official inquiry.
In response, members of AFD complained that the law mimics the oppression East Germans faced under communism.
“I urge every single user of social media to defend themselves against such oppression and to publish the deleted comments over and over again,” AFD co-chairman Alexander Gauland said in a statement Tuesday.
Some technology companies and free speech advocates agree with AFD. Tech companies have criticized the German law for requiring them to make decisions they believe should be left to a judge. A report released in May by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the law may block free speech.
The far-right, xenophobic AFD rose to prominence in Germany during the refugee crisis that saw Germany take in over a million refugees from majority-Muslim countries. The party entered parliament for the first time last year with almost 13 percent of the country’s national vote.
The party is known for making racist and inflammatory comments, and its campaign for Parliament focused almost entirely on anti-Islam and anti-migration messages. Critics of the party have said its rhetoric mimics that of the Nazis, despite the fact that Germany today has very strict laws controlling hate speech.
In August, for example, Gauland said that Germany’s integration minister Aydan Ozoguz, who was born in Germany but is of Turkish descent, should be “disposed of” in Turkey.
Facebook hat mich nun auch zensiert.Das ist das Ende des Rechtstaates WEIL: @polizei_nrw_k erstattet Anzeige,StA muß nun Aufhebung Immunität prüfen,dann ermitteln,dann anklagen,dann Gerichtsverfahren,dann Urteil (mir schlottern die Knie😉).Aber Facebook hat schon geurteilt.q.e.d. pic.twitter.com/pMpKdduqSo
— Beatrix von Storch (@Beatrix_vStorch) January 1, 2018
The far-right, xenophobic AFD rose to prominence in Germany during the refugee crisis that saw Germany take in over a million refugees from majority-Muslim countries. The party entered parliament for the first time last year with almost 13 percent of the country’s national vote.
The party is known for making racist and inflammatory comments, and its campaign for Parliament focused almost entirely on anti-Islam and anti-migration messages. Critics of the party have said its rhetoric mimics that of the Nazis, despite the fact that Germany today has very strict laws controlling hate speech.
In August, for example, Gauland said that Germany’s integration minister Aydan Ozoguz, who was born in Germany but is of Turkish descent, should be “disposed of” in Turkey.
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6 years ago
That was a particularly stupid law, already having bad consequences.
6 years ago
Shutting down social media sites that are critical of Islam, does not make the violent “Religion of Peace”, anymore peaceful.
6 years ago
Reply to
Phil McDonald
You gotta understand — i-slam can never be criticized, ALLAH SAYS SO !!
That is why FB and Twitter shutting down people who dare to criticize i-slam
6 years ago
The AFD has no integrity as anti-Islam party with openly anti Israel-politicians & no efforts to expose the hidden Islamic side of the Nazis.
6 years ago
Reply to
effort
Quote: “The AFD has no integrity as anti-Islam party with openly anti Israel-politicians & no efforts to expose the hidden Islamic side of the Nazis.”
— This is complete nonsense! If there is any party in Germany at the moment that does not pose a blind eye to the apparent islamic anti-semitism, then it is the AfD. Sorry, my friend what your are saying, is simply not true, only the usual defamation by the media.
6 years ago
Reply to
Joaquin Veyron
If you have an anti-Islam party in Germany, it’s your obligation to revert the censorship concerning the Islamic ideology of the Nazis & not to incite against Israel like Amin Al-Husseini.
6 years ago
allah’SS little helper heiko maas, Federal ‘Minister’ of justice NetzDG (network enforcement law)
runs now at 01.01.2018 Alice Weidel’s tweet ONLY censored in dictatorship germany https://mobile.twitter.com/Alice_Weidel/status/94787574744367513
“2018 starts with # NetzDG censorship!
Our authorities submit ( https://quran.com/9/29 ) to imported, marauding, graying, flogging, knife-stabbing ( https://quran.com/8/12-17 ) migrant mobs.
@Beatrix_vStorch rightly criticizes that the ?? police are tweeting in Arabic – and will be banned!
But a VPN helps immediately 🙂
WHAT IS WITH RABBLE ROUSER no. 1 allah? https://quran.com/3/141 -> https://quran.com/8/17
Vs. Section 130 Criminal Code ‘Incitement to hatred’ ‘… (1) Whosoever, in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace 1. incites hatred
against a national, racial, religious group or …’
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p1246
6 years ago
At 1.1.2018 lefistis-liberal Twitter & Co. decides what is hate https://quran.com/4/89 https://quran.com/4/56, and what is not
—NOT the prosecution in Germany anylonger.
A sad day. A needless law. A nefarious name (NetzDG)
6 years ago
If anyone wants to see any change in face book or twitter, then they will have to stop using them, in particular refuse to patronize their advertisers. Otherwise, shut up and take your lumps.
6 years ago
“What the hell is happening in this country?”
Germany ist now official a madhouse!
Beatrix von Storch
✔
@Beatrix_vStorch “Facebook has
already censored me now (NOT the prosecution). That’s the end of the righteous state BECAUSE:
@polizei_nrw_k, StA (‘Staatsanwaltschaft’, prosecution) must now check for repeal of immunity,
then investigate, then prosecute, then legal action, then judgment (me
kneeling). But Facebook has already judged” (for their fear of HIGH penalty of NetzDG)
This is how a dictatorship works.
6 years ago
This is the remedial libs new tactic….Erase History and they can hide their crimes…too late!
6 years ago
Let me make it simple enough for the average social media user to understand. Stop licking the boots that are used to kick your sorry asses with. How hard it it to use an alternative or learn to do something other than snivel and moan, all the while encouraging the abuse you are subject to and complain about?
6 years ago
Brave https://twitter.com/AmyMek of USA also censored in 2017 in france & germany
6 years ago
Reply to
Thorsten
When i look at these two sickening creeps above and think about their despicable Commo Boss woman, am i glad now that i left Germany 51 years ago.
6 years ago
de Maiziere: https://twitter.com/bmi_bund censor man heiko maas: https://twitter.com/bmjv_bund
Robert Spencer: https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcfAl-nHppV/?taken-by=thorsten59
6 years ago
IF this does not show whose side the MSM is on, I don’t know what else to tell ya? Oh yeah, what are you doing using them??
6 years ago
STOP USING FB.
6 years ago
Twitter, Facebook and Google all work for the deep state(NWO). Conservatives are being shutdown constantly. These are the tactics of Hitler!
6 years ago
So it’s safe to assume that any Anti-Jewish rants from Muslims will be dealt with in the same manner, right? Of course not, I’m being sarcastic. We all know this is a one way street. This is, without a doubt, censorship and needs to be called out.
6 years ago
What are our USA troops doing in Germany. It is time to move the troops east to Poland, Hungary and the Ukraine. Let Germany know we will no longer subsidize or protect the Merkel dictatorship.
6 years ago
More often than not, the truth is a hate crime, it’s anti Islamic ! Everyone must fight this. Either Facebook must be broken up or another similar media started without the editors.
6 years ago
“gang-raping hordes” of Muslim men NEED TO DIE. ONE AND ALL.
