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Inside Germany, where posting hate speech online can be a crime
In the U.S., most of what we say online, even if it's hate filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, prosecutors and cops police the internet.CBS News - 3d -
Policing the Internet | Sunday on 60 Minutes
In the United States, most of what we say online – even if it’s hate-filled or toxic – is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, law enforcement police the internet for ...CBS News - 5d -
How Germany is going after hate speech online
In Germany, posting hate speech online can bring police to your door.CBS News - 3d -
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Bob Simon first met the Lost Boys of Sudan — a group of young men orphaned by civil war — in a Kenyan refugee camp in 2001. Their parents were killed, and their sisters were often sold into ...CBS News - Feb. 10
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