Censorship: Facebook Deleted 100,000 ‘Hate Posts, Insults’ in Just One Month, by Virginia Hale.

Facebook revealed that within the last month it deleted 100,000 posts by German users for containing “hate”, but Justice Minister Heiko Maas has blasted the figure as too low. …

In Germany’s fight against “hate speech” on the internet, a task force of several Internet companies including Facebook agreed to delete posts which are punishable under German law within 24 hours. …

Since Angela Merkel’s decision to allow more than 1.6 million migrants into Germany, the government has taken an incredibly hard line on free speech on the internet. Police have conducted raids on the homes of people suspected to have made posts critical of migrants.

Funny how political discussion has increasingly become an argument over what you are allowed to say. This despite the long tradition of freedom of speech in the Anglosphere (though not in Germany). The politically correct are really throwing their weight around now that they own the courts, the media, the bureaucracy, … A fundamental change to wards tyranny is underway.