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brickfaced ◴[11 Apr 25 08:40 UTC] No.43651656[source]▶

>>43651489 (OP) #

Land of the free, where police raid your home at dawn over mean tweets:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

https://archive.ph/hETjp

Not a one-off, either:

https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/germans-cant-insult...

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1. croes ◴[11 Apr 25 08:46 UTC] No.43651719[source]▶

>>43651656 #

"In March 2022, the investigation was dropped due to a lack of public interest in prosecution.In August 2022, the Hamburg Regional Court also ruled that the house search was unlawful and unreasonable."

Freedom doesn't mean that no errors are made but that they are aknowledged as errors.

The responsible politician still gets rediculed for that and isn't praised by his fanbase.

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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now