The Maga senator hits Hillary Clinton for her speech in “country where it is illegal to insult politicians”

Former Secretary of State of the United States Hillary Clinton I spoke in the World Forum in Berlin this week and said: “There is no way to sweeten it, there is no way to explain it, autocracy is in March. Now we have a government in the United States that has launched its fate with autocrats.”

The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate added that the current United States government “has given enormous power to men who control the flow of information in our world, who have promised loyalty to the continuation of algorithms that not only additional us but that they poison us with hatred and fear.”

Clinton added: “Information determines how we think and how we think determines what we say and what we say determines what we do.”

Hillary Clinton finds comfort with other globalists in Germany today: “Now we have a government in the United States that has launched its fate with the autocrats.”

She is talking in a country where it is illegal to insult politicians online.
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– Eric Schmitt (@Aric_schmitt) March 19, 2025

American senator aligned by Maga Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri) responded to Clinton’s speech about X writing: “Hillary Clinton found comfort with other globalists in Germany today … She is talking in a country where it is illegal to insult politicians online.”

Kcur subway reporter Sam Zeff responded to Schmitt: “Not exactly”, and provided a link to the Congress Library which describes the “limits of freedom of expression: Germany”, as pointed out in the German Constitution, which protects freedom of expression but not the “hate speech.” (Article 5 of the German basic law, the constitution of the country, “guarantees freedom of expression and freedom of the press, among other communication rights listed).

(Note: without being criticized by Schmitt for globalist opinions, vice president JD Vance He also spoke in Germany recently, attending the Munich Security Conference, where he criticized Germany for adopting a “Soviet” style Censorship approach).

Schmitt, Vance and Zeff refer to the battle of freedom of expression ongoing versus the battle of hate discourse, magnified by the power of the Internet, which 60 minutes Explained in a recent segment on German authorities who have begun to process online trolls, “in an effort to stop the hate discourse online in Germany.”

German prosecutors explain to US viewers in 60 minutes all the various ways in which the country criminalizes speech, such as online insults, the denial of the Holocaust and false news. pic.twitter.com/esc1zvivx1

– Andy Ngo (@Mrandyngo) February 17, 2025

Three German prosecutors interviewed by 60 minutes He said it is a crime in Germany insulting someone in public and online, and it is also a crime to re -publish an online insult. (When asked: “Is it a crime to insult someone in public?” The three prosecutors said “yes.” When asked: “It is a crime to insult him online too?”

(Note: A notable, and not new example, of freedom of expression versus the argument of hate speech is seen in the fact that it is illegal In Germany to perform the Sieg Heil, or the Nazi, who has been in The news lately.)

In Germany, publishing online hate speech is illegal. The law applies with police raids before dawn. pic.twitter.com/OHVWTVARJQ

– 60 minutes (@60 minutes) February 17, 2025

Germany increased its “hate speech” laws after the murder in 2019 of a local politician who then defended the chancellor Angela MerkelProgressive immigration policies in a video that went viral in 2015.

One of the prosecutors said that for four years people online were inciting others to kill the politician. She said: “That was one of the cases in which we see that hatred online can sometimes find a path in real life and then hurt people.”

Theoretician of the American conspiracy of the extreme right Alex JonesWho made false statements that the Sandy Hook 2012 Primary School, which killed 20 students and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax, responded to the segment writing: “Look at the 60 -minute news they have a political orgasm about the German government that stops citizens for their speech.”

The parents of the children who were killed in Sandy Hook successfully sued Jones and saying They were subjected to “years of torment, threats and abuse by people who believed the lies he said in their program.” Jones was permanently prohibited by Twitter in 2018 and then restored in 2023 by its new owner, Elon Musk.