False information is not an object worthy of protection from the viewpoint of freedom of opinion (54 BVerfGE 208, 219). The deliberate assertion of untrue facts is not protected by article 5, paragraph 1 of the Basic Law
It sounds cool, until you question "settled scientific facts" like covid instakills grandma or global warming destroys humanity in 5-10 years unless we pay more carbon tax.
As far as I'm aware freedom of speech situation is not that awesome in Germany if you dissent from the "mainstream" thoughts, so to speak.
For a recent example search for "german doctor live stream raid" on your favorite search engine and look at your preferred source.
From what I could find the police said that he wasn't the target of the investigation, and that the raid was related to drugs, not his speaking out on COVID.
I can't seem to find anything beyond the initial story, like any comment from him afterwards or if he's suing the cops, if they even had a warrant for his place, etc.
Do you know of any follow up to this story? I'd like to read more.
There is this caveat:
It sounds cool, until you question "settled scientific facts" like covid instakills grandma or global warming destroys humanity in 5-10 years unless we pay more carbon tax.
As far as I'm aware freedom of speech situation is not that awesome in Germany if you dissent from the "mainstream" thoughts, so to speak.
For a recent example search for "german doctor live stream raid" on your favorite search engine and look at your preferred source.
From what I could find the police said that he wasn't the target of the investigation, and that the raid was related to drugs, not his speaking out on COVID.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151023
I can't seem to find anything beyond the initial story, like any comment from him afterwards or if he's suing the cops, if they even had a warrant for his place, etc.
Do you know of any follow up to this story? I'd like to read more.
Couldn't find any further info in English. German Police said they were looking for someone else and won't disclose more information: https://twitter.com/PolizeiMFR/status/1329685255427592192
It's hard to tell whether it's true or false, but regardless this was not a good example about German freeish speech, my bad.
Maybe a better one is this article about police raids: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-accused-of-hateful-postings-over-social-media.html
Or the hate speech articles related to Germany from Deutsche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/hate-speech/t-38698844