Loosely defined hate-speech laws and the rise of social media have led to zealous policing, resulting in fines and prison ...

Some worry that by policing the internet, Germany is backsliding into the Germany of 80 years ago, when citizens' words were surveilled. Ballon says there's no surveillance, and that free speech ...

German police have launched a nationwide operation targeting people suspected of inciting hate online. The government's ...

Germans are being arrested for insulting politicians — we need to protect free speech so it never happens here ...

In the U.S., most of what we say online, even if it's hate filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, prosecutors and cops police the internet.

The weekend programming over at CBS was unusually focused on speech norms and censorship in Germany. First, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan casually asserted that free speech is what ...

CBS News has turned to Germany – of all nations – to argue for more restraints on free speech. Liberals and their media friends truly are clueless.

A court in the German town of Lindau has imposed a €8,400 fine on a man for tweeting three words on X: “Alles für Deutschland ...

We commonly forget that the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech far beyond what is tolerated by our ...

Yascha Mounck, a German-born political science professor at Johns Hopkins notes that Germany has always been more restrictive about speech than the U.S., but that things have recently grown worse.

German free-speech advocates hoped Mr. Vance’s words might prompt their leaders to reconsider their course—if not out of principle, then at least as a gesture to improve relations with the new ...