{"id":200144,"date":"2020-01-02T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200144"},"modified":"2020-01-04T07:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T07:06:43","slug":"germany-to-force-internet-providers-to-hand-over-data-passwords-of-people-accused-of-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200144","title":{"rendered":"Germany to Force Internet Providers to Hand Over Data, Passwords of People ACCUSED! of \u2018Hate Speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chris Tomlinson \u2013 Breibart Dec 21, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/internet-censorship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-75734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/internet-censorship-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/internet-censorship-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/internet-censorship.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Angela Merkel\u2019s government is preparing a new bill that will force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to hand over data, including passwords, of those accused of engaging in \u201chate speech\u201d online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht, a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), is preparing the bill, which will force service providers, email hosts, online retailers, and others to give the government the usernames, passwords, IP addresses, and more of suspects, MDR\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdr.de\/nachrichten\/politik\/inland\/meldepflicht-passwoerter-facebook-gesetz-100.html\">reports<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Lambrecht was slammed by many over the proposal, with\u00a0Hamburg\u2019s data protection officer\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnd.de\/politik\/passwort-abruf-plane-datenschutzbeauftragter-von-hamburg-ubt-kritik-2YG4E6FZS5DQFPLH5KBXY2QAYM.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Johannes Caspar<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>calling it an attack on privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe fight against the ugly phenomena of right-wing extremism and hate crime apparently acts as a door opener for a comprehensive expansion of state control powers,\u201d he warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJ3TK7wCvGY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The German minister defended herself and the bill, claiming that the passwords and data would only be requested as part of a court order and only in serious cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIt is not a question of asking for passwords en masse, it is a completely wrong representation and not at all the point and purpose,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police Raid 60 Homes For \u2018Xenophobic\u2019 Facebook Posts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YFXe5P1mDk\">https:\/\/t.co\/YFXe5P1mDk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/piUPNx5nV0\">pic.twitter.com\/piUPNx5nV0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/753282183700344832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Joana Cotar said the proposed legislation was a \u201cfight against the free Internet\u201d and argued it would be used to silence citizens critical of the German government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The far-left Die Linke agreed with the AfD, accusing the government of setting up a\u00a0surveillance state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Germany already has one of the most draconian sets of laws concerning \u201chate\u201d on social media, including <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2017\/04\/05\/germany-approves-bill-targeting-online-hate-crime-fake-news\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>approving legislation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0imposing fines of up to 50 million euros on social media companies who do not remove hate content in what the government considers a timely manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The German authorities are also known to engage in large-scale raids of citizens accused of spreading \u201chate speech\u201d online, with a 2016 raid seeing <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/07\/13\/police-raids-germany-net-posts\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>60 homes searched<\/strong><\/span><\/a> across 14 states.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Freedom of Expression Has Its Limits!\u2019 \u2013 Merkel Rails Against Free Speech <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BAoBtdlCIh\">https:\/\/t.co\/BAoBtdlCIh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1201229481391857665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/12\/21\/germany-to-force-internet-providers-to-hand-over-data-of-those-accused-of-hate-speech\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition parties have accused Merkel\u2019s government of setting up a surveillance state   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200146,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200144\/revisions\/200146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}