Comment by arrowsmith
5 days ago
See also: Germany's leader filing hundreds of criminal complaints against people who insult him on social media:
https://rmx.news/article/germany-chancellor-merz-quietly-fil...
5 days ago
See also: Germany's leader filing hundreds of criminal complaints against people who insult him on social media:
https://rmx.news/article/germany-chancellor-merz-quietly-fil...
Shocking, only 10 short years since this (when Merkel was Chancellor): Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian Jan Böhmermann (Germany's equivalent of John Stewart) over Erdoğan poem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474967
Which led to a British journalist holding an "offensive poems about Erdogan" contest, which was won by Boris Johnson:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johns...
"Germany's leader" - that's how you know it's a low-brow article.
Except the article doesn't say that, only the comment here does.