Leaving behind hate comments on the internet is very easy: Insults, threats or xenophobic comments can be disseminated with the click of a mouse. The police and the judiciary consistently oppose these crimes. This includes the now third nationwide "Action Day to combat hate posting", which takes place today and is coordinated by the Federal Criminal Police Office.
Since this morning, 06.00 clock, 20 police stations in Berlin, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hesse, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are in the context of the action day in action. They carry out apartment searches, interrogations and other measures against 29 accused persons. The perpetrators are accused of having posted hate comments on the Internet, such as the public call for crimes, anti-Semitic verbal abuse or xenophobic incitement. The "simple mouse click" to spread hate on the net can have serious consequences for the perpetrators: incitement in social networks or online forums is punishable by imprisonment of up to five years.
The Day of Action to combat hate mailing emphasizes that the Internet is not a law-free area. The speedy removal of hate comments on the Internet, as envisaged by the Network Enforcement Act, which came into force at the beginning of this year, is just as important as the prosecution of perpetrators.
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