Comment by throwayay4929

4 days ago

In Germany you can't leave a 3 star review saying "it's just ok" for a restaurant because the owner can sue Google for defamation so Google just removes your review[0].

"Politicians send SWAT teams to the homes of people, famously in the case of Andy Grote, where someone replied "you're such a dick" to one of Grote's tweets. Grote reported this to the police, the attorney general figured out who the poster was, and sent a SWAT team (6 police officers!) to confiscate all their electronic devices. This is not an isolated case; this happens frequently."

Nah mate, Germans are famously thin skinned and have built an authoritarian state to protect their feelings.

[0]: https://x.com/eigen_moomin/status/2077471686295957749