{"id":1734281,"date":"2022-11-10T18:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734281"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:32:53","slug":"thank-god-for-the-first-amendment-and-that-we-dont-live-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thank-god-for-the-first-amendment-and-that-we-dont-live-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank God For The First Amendment And That We Don\u2019t Live In Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthank-god-for-the-first-amendment-and-that-we-dont-live-in-germany%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734281&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Question of the day: Could you imagine a Western nation where you could potentially be imprisoned for questioning the mainstream media narrative?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that is basically happening in a real place \u2014 Germany.\u00a0 Many assume that Europe is something like America when it comes to free speech and other liberties, but that isn\u2019t actually the case.<\/p>\n<p>The First Amendment is unique. For instance, basically, every time I tweet, I get an email from German Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>I know it sounds weird, but it\u2019s German Twitter and it has an enforcement program. And I get these emails, notifying me of things like, \u201cHello, Twitter is required by German law to provide notice to users who are reported by people from Germany via the Network Enforcement Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there are certain things you can and can\u2019t say on German Twitter. Here are two examples:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Zelensky is a very bad character who is working with globalists against the interests of his own people. I will not move one inch away from that assessment\u2014ever\u2014no matter how flowery the media depictions of him are.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1504529380873318403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcoming myself to Elon\u2019s Twitter! <\/p>\n<p>Does this mean I am allowed to say that only women can give birth without having my account locked again?<\/p>\n<p>Are biological realities no longer considered \u201chate speech? <\/p>\n<p>May we meaningfully differentiate between mental disorders and truth?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1586128390343385088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But beyond Twitter, the reason I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/article\/germanys-laws-antisemitic-hate-speech-nazi-propaganda-holocaust-denial\/#:~:text=Section%20130%20of%20the%20German,national%2C%20religious%20or%20ethnic%20background.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling<\/a> you this is because one of the laws that they have in place is Section 130 of the German Penal Code which is meant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gesetze-im-internet.de\/englisch_stgb\/englisch_stgb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibit<\/a> \u201chate speech.\u201d It has existed since 1871 in response to the spread of communism. Its intent has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/article\/germanys-laws-antisemitic-hate-speech-nazi-propaganda-holocaust-denial\/#:~:text=Section%20130%20of%20the%20German,national%2C%20religious%20or%20ethnic%20background.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed<\/a> over time.<\/p>\n<p>So, under this code, you are prohibited from doing things like publicly denying the Holocaust or other hateful things, and the penalty is three months to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Just to give you a recent example, there was a woman, she\u2019s 93 years old and she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/germany-again-jails-93-years-old-woman-for-holocaust-denial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> to one year in prison for Holocaust denial in April of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/23\/technology\/germany-internet-speech-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in September, that German authorities arrested a 51-year-old man who \u201cwas accused of violating laws against online hate speech, insults and misinformation. He had shared an image on Facebook with an inflammatory statement about immigration falsely attributed to a German politician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can even be arrested for insulting somebody in public in Germany. The definition of \u201chatred\u201d under the law is so very vague.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Germany even tried to expand the laws by \u200brequiring social media giants to \u201cnotify the government when they detected online hate speech and other illicit content, a rule that could have led to thousands of new cases per year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/23\/technology\/germany-internet-speech-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to The Times.<\/p>\n<p>It was struck down by the court, and thank goodness for that.<\/p>\n<p>Now, why am I telling you that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, evidenced by recent news stories from Germany, the direction the country is headed is clear.<\/p>\n<p>Dissent is not going to be tolerated \u2014 especially if it is misconstrued as being hateful.<\/p>\n<p>Yet we\u2019re seeing similar things here in America. We might not have laws \u2014 but we certainly have a mainstream media that enforces certain narratives which they claim you\u2019re not allowed to question.<\/p>\n<p>People say that even asking questions about certain topics is an act of terrorism. Consider the treatment of January Sixth \u2014 or what the left calls \u201cthe insurrection.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leftists say, \u201cThese people, they\u2019re domestic terrorists. Do you support Trump? Then you must be a domestic terrorist if you do. Oh, my gosh, be so afraid. How can you even question the narrative about January Sixth?<\/p>\n<p>God forbid you to ask meaningful questions about January Sixth, as I have done.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/10\/31\/social-media-disinformation-dhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent news story<\/a> about the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s collaboration with Big Tech giants to censor and block speech they deemed hateful \u2014 essentially online police.<\/p>\n<p>When our government works in lockstep with the mainstream media, problems are going to arise that are very scary, and it is not right.<\/p>\n<p>It goes against our First Amendment \u2014 something Germany does not have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question of the day: Could you imagine a Western nation where you could potentially be imprisoned for questioning the mainstream media narrative? Well, that is basically happening in a real place \u2014 Germany.\u00a0 Many assume that Europe is something like America when it comes to free speech and other liberties, but that isn\u2019t actually the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":1734284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}