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Finnish Ministry goes GDR with hate speech
The Ministry of Justice in Finland is going GDR-style all the way with a video on it’s official YouTube-channel.
In the video they ask citizens to report each other for hate speech at the police.” Did you know that hate speech can be a crime? The same laws apply on the web as elsewhere”, they say.
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20 Years on: Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989
Crying policemen. Stinking traffic jams of East German Trabis on the posh streets of West Berlin. Strangers falling into each others’ arms. The night of Nov. 9, 1989 was unforgettable. A look into the SPIEGEL archives brings the historic day to life.
Wearing nothing but a coat over his pajamas, the man spoke rapidly in his thick Berlin accent: “We live on Bornholmer Street, in the East,...