In Germany, sweeping slurs against women can be punishable as incitement to hatred.
Communications that are considered illegal include posts in which women are slandered and insulted in a sexualized manner, or publicly encouraged to send nude photos. The authorities also flagged posts that advocated rape or sexual assault or that distributed videos of torture or killing.
The raids concentrated on suspects who had set their sights on well-known women like female politicians
What are you trying to say? I can’t get past the internal contradictions of this statement …
Yes, china does moderate the speech of it’s citizens. In theory this is part of the state’s duty to protect the cohesiveness of their political and cultural hierarchy. This is fairly standard in any socialized nation that’s confronting reactionary influence.
In this way, wouldn’t Germany utilizing the state’s power to protect it’s vulnerable populations from reactionary culture wars be a win in the eyes of leftist?
Yes we can all laugh at the irony of the situation, but it seems most people commenting are taking a very libertarian attitude for the sake of misogyny.