Elon Musk Highlights Case of German Man Fined €600 Euros For Posting Poop Emoji Aimed at Green Party Leader
Highlighting the ludicrous state of free speech in Germany, Elon Musk highlighted the case of a man who was fined €600 Euros for using a poop emoji in a tweet directed at Green Party politician Robert Habeck.
JD Vance’s warning about the retreat of free speech across Europe during the Munich Security Conference caused a collective hissy fit amongst the political establishment.
However, his comments were proven correct just two days later when 60 Minutes aired a bizarrely congratulatory piece lauding the German authorities for conducting house to house raids targeting people who had posted ‘offensive’ or ‘insulting’ material online.
The piece also highlighted how in Germany it is literally illegal to call a politician an “idiot,” or in another case point out that Green Party politician Ricarda Lang was fat (she is fat).
Musk drew attention to a news story from November last year concerning a man from Saxony-Anhalt, who posted on X about his feelings towards Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and Vice Chancellor of Germany.
“Mr Habeck, you are such a lying piece of (poop emoji),” the man tweeted.
😂 https://t.co/tzrL4I0UPz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2025
The post was in relation to Habeck’s role in phasing out oil and gas heating systems in buildings throughout Germany in favor of a switch to green energy.
After it was implemented at the start of last year, the policy resulted in a sharp increase in heating bills for homeowners.
The German citizen was merely expressing his disdain for Habeck at having drastically increased his cost of living.
After Habeck filed a criminal complaint about the post, the man was later convicted and fined €600 euros for “insulting individuals in public office, slander and defamation” under Section 188 of the Criminal Code.
Shockingly, as of last year, Habeck had filed at least 805 criminal complaints of a similar nature, including one which led to a pensioner having his home raided for merely retweeting a meme that was deemed insulting to Habeck.
JD Vance was right.
There is no free speech in Germany.
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