Video: “60 Minutes” Gushes Over SHOCKING German Online Anti-Free Speech Law
Citizens Face Pre-Dawn Police Raids Over “Insults” & “Lies”
Americans are disturbed by Germany’s anti-free speech law against online “hate speech” where citizens are raided by police officers before the break of day, as highlighted in Sunday’s edition of 60 Minutes.
WATCH: Germany Begins Gestapo-Style Raids On Citizens Posting "Offensive" MEMES
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The Orwellian state of the European nation should serve as a warning to all countries wishing to avoid falling into such a tyrannical situation.
Watch below as a German citizen had his home raided at dawn by six armed officers who confiscated his laptop and cellphone for the “crime” of allegedly “posting a racist cartoon online.”
Across the country, 60 Minutes reported that at least 50 similar raids took place last Tuesday morning alone.
German state police raid a home, seizing the suspect’s laptop and phone. The crime? Posting a racist cartoon online. https://t.co/4LHUP1ZWrB pic.twitter.com/tEC1N1Nm1L
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Speaking with a group of “hate speech” prosecutors, the outlet learned that most Germans are unaware their online posts can result in real-life criminal charges.
One of the prosecutors appeared to mock “culprits” who argue they have “free speech” to say what they want.
In Germany, posting hate speech online is illegal. The law is enforced with pre-dawn police raids. https://t.co/DNAJyNxILt pic.twitter.com/OHvWTVaRjQ
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Journalist Sharyn Alfonsi asked the prosecutors if their work makes a difference since they’re confined to only punishing German citizens and other people online can still post “hate speech.”
“I would say yes, because what’s the option? The option is to say we don’t do anything? No. We are prosecutors. If we see a crime, we want to investigate it. It’s a lot of work and there are also borders, it’s not an area without law,” a German government speech monitor responded.
“You're launching all these investigations. You're fining people, sometimes putting them in jail. Does it make a difference if it's a worldwide web, and there's a lot of hate out there?” Sharyn Alfonsi asks German prosecutors. pic.twitter.com/xpKKgxQUtX
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
German state prosecutor Svenja Meininghaus described how politician Walter Lübcke was assassinated in 2019 after he defended the invasion of the country by supporting ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open borders immigration policy.
According to the prosecutors, Lübcke’s death was caused by “hate” speech online.
“We see that online hate can sometimes find a way into real life and then hurt people,” says Svenja Meininghaus, a state prosecutor in Germany, explaining why the country strictly enforces its online speech laws. pic.twitter.com/q0uDXQlm2A
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
All three state speech monitors agreed “it is a crime to insult somebody in public” or “online,” explaining “malicious gossip” and “fake quotes” are also illegal to post on the internet.
Alfonsi then asked what happens if somebody reposts something online that turned out to be false, with Meininghaus answering, “In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well…”
The prosecutors all laughed when they told the reporter that Germans are “shocked” when they have their cellphones confiscated in the “hate speech” police raids.
Posting or reposting false information in Germany can be a crime, and the punishment for repeat offenders can include jail time. pic.twitter.com/25OLFeLfna
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Another German prosecutor, Frank Michael Laue, told Alfonsi his unit works on around 3,500 “hate speech” cases per year.
Laue showed off printouts of “criminal offenses” such as a person posting a meme suggesting migrant children play on electrical wires or another individual who posted an image of a woman wearing lingerie with a swastika armband.
Frank Michael Laue says his unit has successfully prosecuted about 750 hate speech cases in Germany over the past four years. pic.twitter.com/XG1T319q60
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Josephine Ballon, the CEO of a German human rights association called HateAid that focuses on internet “hate speech,” told Alfonsi, “Free speech needs boundaries… Without boundaries, a very small group of people can rely on endless freedom to say anything that they want, while everyone else is scared and intimidated.”
She continued to explain that half of German internet users are “afraid” to engage in political speech online, insinuating it is due to being attacked by “hate speech” offenders and failing to realize it’s more likely they’re terrified of being targeted by their authoritarian government.
“Free speech needs boundaries… Without boundaries, a very small group of people can rely on endless freedom to say anything that they want, while everyone else is scared and intimidated,” says Josephine Ballon, CEO of HateAid. https://t.co/YjlBa7YJ3s pic.twitter.com/xqI88oiiO2
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
The internet had a field day mocking the totalitarian anti-free speech admissions of German prosecutors and thanking God America still has remnants internet freedom.
POV: You called your bro gay online in Germanypic.twitter.com/XFUaf108Bv
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 17, 2025
When you change your 𝕏 name to Harry Bōlz in Germany pic.twitter.com/acG8S59Q41
— The Big Picture (@Big_Picture_89) February 17, 2025
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance wrote, “Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships. This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy.”
Absolutely!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
Throwing people in prison for memes or because they insulted a politician in Germany is madness.
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Vance delivered a powerful speech during last week’s Munich Security Conference in Germany, telling a host of globalist politicians and military generals their nations have become tyrannical cesspools.
JD Vance went to the Munich Security Conference and roasted the entire continent of Europe for being petty tyrants and criminalizing freedom of speech, including a British man arrested for praying at an abortion clinic.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 14, 2025
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𝕏 owner Elon Musk agreed with a user who said the 60 Minutes report alone makes him want the U.S. to pull out of NATO.
this *ALONE* makes me want to pull out of NATO
— Tom Sauer (@thomasbsauer) February 17, 2025
defend your own bullshit https://t.co/n07nGowwuH
“Thank the Lord that America has freedom of speech!” Musk wrote in another post.
Thank the Lord that America has freedom of speech! https://t.co/DNvWldUXPj
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
NYT best-selling author John LeFevre posted, “Calling a rapist a rapist is more offensive than being a rapist in Germany. And 60 Minutes is okay with this…”
This is wild:
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) February 17, 2025
It’s a “crime” in Germany to “insult someone in public” or “spread malicious gossip.”
Meanwhile, immigrant rapists are given a slap on the wrist because it’s “their culture.”
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio destroyed CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday when she claimed free speech in Germany would somehow lead to the second coming of Adolf Hitler.
