Within just hours on Sunday, CBSâ Margaret Brennan claimed to Marco Rubio that free speech is what led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and then the Holocaust, and then ran a 60 Minutes segment about how itâs illegal to insult people in Germany.
The segment ran just days after Vice President JD Vance ripped European leaders to their faces at the Munich Security Conference about their lack of free speech.
In the segment, CBSâ Sharyn Alfonsi claims that while the U.S. allows for hateful speech, Germany is "trying to bring some civility to the worldwide web by policing it in a way most Americans could never imagine."
German state prosecutors, Dr. Matthäus Fink, Svenja Meininghaus and Frank-Michael Laue, explained how the law in their country "prohibits any speech that could incite hatred or is deemed insulting.â This also extends to thoughtcrime, such as (obviously absurdly) believing that the Holocaust is a lie or exaggerated.
Prosecutor Fink explained that the fine for insulting someone on the internet is higher than in person, âBecause on the internet, it stays there. If we are talking face to face, you insult me, I insult you, okay, finish. But if youâre [on] the internet, if I insult you or a politician."
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Vance made note of the segment on X, commenting âInsulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships. This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy.â
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