
Germany’s HateAid: Portrait of a ‘Trusted Flagger’
The arbiters of acceptable online speech are not nearly as ‘independent’ as the EU would have people believe.

The arbiters of acceptable online speech are not nearly as ‘independent’ as the EU would have people believe.

How does Brussels still delude itself into believing there is no free-speech crisis in Europe?

In the Kafkaesque reality of Germany’s speech laws, anonymous functionaries can trigger police raids, with intimidation becoming the goal and the punishment.