Post by Trades on Jun 6, 2017 8:54:07 GMT -5
I know this can happen in Canada and Europe so it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case.
www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article210748779/Berlinerin-wegen-Volksverhetzung-auf-Facebook-verurteilt.html
Berlin woman convicted on incitement on Facebook
The 62-year-old spread hate messages on the Internet. "I like to carry on fun things," she justified herself.
By Hans H. Nibbrig 31.05.2017, 06:00
Those who are active in social networks such as Facebook or Twitter should always consider exactly what they are doing there. This experience had to make a 62-year-old Berlin woman on Tuesday after she was sentenced by the Amtsgericht Tiergarten for incitement to a fine of 1350 euros. And the condemnation was not the only consequence of their Internet activities, which the unemployed specialist salesman felt.
On 29 August last year Jutta B. from Lichtenberg forwarded a contribution to the topic of refugees who had just arrived on their Facebook account. The article contained a photo of refugees and an accompanying text. She said that because she had an urgent appointment, she had just flown over, considered a fun contribution, and then passed on, the defendants protested on Tuesday: "I like to carry on fun things."
What the woman thought was fun, the public prosecutor regarded as "an utterance capable of inciting hatred and denigration of the human dignity of others". For the text, written as a fictitious conversation in question and answer form, was not to be surpassed in clarity: "Question: Do you have something against refugees? Answer: Yes, machine guns and hand granders." This man-despairing tone dragged through the entire text. Within a short time, more than 500 other Facebook users had read the text and forwarded it. Including a user who promptly filed a complaint against Jutta B.
Insults and murder threats in the network
As a result, the prosecutor's office instituted proceedings, the police confiscated the defendants' computer, searched the Internet for 62-year-olds, other Facebook users abused them, and Antifa groups sent murders. "The whole thing was a mistake from me, which went full backwards," explained the woman in court.
And insisted that the spread of the text was only a foolish unintentional mistake and no intention to spread hate messages. Racist expressions and right thought are "absolutely not my thing", she also asserted.
The fact that the defendant did not know exactly what she was doing did not take the prosecutor nor the judge, the messages of the text were too clear for her. Even the explanation of having nothing to do with right thought came more to skepticism. Perhaps because of other disseminations of the defendants on the Internet, among other things, a Hitler picture was seen.
The 62-year-old spread hate messages on the Internet. "I like to carry on fun things," she justified herself.
By Hans H. Nibbrig 31.05.2017, 06:00
Those who are active in social networks such as Facebook or Twitter should always consider exactly what they are doing there. This experience had to make a 62-year-old Berlin woman on Tuesday after she was sentenced by the Amtsgericht Tiergarten for incitement to a fine of 1350 euros. And the condemnation was not the only consequence of their Internet activities, which the unemployed specialist salesman felt.
On 29 August last year Jutta B. from Lichtenberg forwarded a contribution to the topic of refugees who had just arrived on their Facebook account. The article contained a photo of refugees and an accompanying text. She said that because she had an urgent appointment, she had just flown over, considered a fun contribution, and then passed on, the defendants protested on Tuesday: "I like to carry on fun things."
What the woman thought was fun, the public prosecutor regarded as "an utterance capable of inciting hatred and denigration of the human dignity of others". For the text, written as a fictitious conversation in question and answer form, was not to be surpassed in clarity: "Question: Do you have something against refugees? Answer: Yes, machine guns and hand granders." This man-despairing tone dragged through the entire text. Within a short time, more than 500 other Facebook users had read the text and forwarded it. Including a user who promptly filed a complaint against Jutta B.
Insults and murder threats in the network
As a result, the prosecutor's office instituted proceedings, the police confiscated the defendants' computer, searched the Internet for 62-year-olds, other Facebook users abused them, and Antifa groups sent murders. "The whole thing was a mistake from me, which went full backwards," explained the woman in court.
And insisted that the spread of the text was only a foolish unintentional mistake and no intention to spread hate messages. Racist expressions and right thought are "absolutely not my thing", she also asserted.
The fact that the defendant did not know exactly what she was doing did not take the prosecutor nor the judge, the messages of the text were too clear for her. Even the explanation of having nothing to do with right thought came more to skepticism. Perhaps because of other disseminations of the defendants on the Internet, among other things, a Hitler picture was seen.
