#iComment: Germany’s on- and offline crusade against hate speech
by Ana Ribeiro
After cyberhate-related raids last summer, German authorities are pressing on against hate speech, with Justice Minister Heiko Maas perhaps as their most publicly active voice. One of their main targets is Facebook, and their efforts are getting quite a bit of media attention at home and abroad.
The New York Times spoke with Maas in November 2016 and portrayed Germany as being in the forefront of “a growing push around the world to regulate what users are allowed to post online. (…) Germany has become an important test case globally for how the social network polices what may…
