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The worse of it is that this will serve as an example. By now It should be a matter of days untill I start seeing politicians on the TV preaching about this German innovation and why everybody else should follow through.

The EU is dangerous exactly because it's so predictable. Anybody can predict their next step, but as the saying goes: the worst kind of blind is the one who refuses to see.

EDIT: Well, well. I've just bumped into a recent case. I have found a journalist who received 63 individual but simultaneous criminal complaints because he made a non-patriotic joke about a province. The 63 offended complainers are all affiliated to the same political party. Quite a tactic. With this German law they'd have won and turned the guy into a bankrupt life-sentence prisioner. But even without it all these individual lawsuits cost money, taxes, time and sleep, it would be less of a hassle to combine the cases, but they don't do so on purpose, to make everything harder, more tiresome and more expensive.

It would be catastrophic if such a mass Front appeared in Germany. Skybird is concerned with the occasional opportunistic lawsuit and Human Resources difficulty. But you can pretty much utterly destroy freedom of the press and expression if you bombard everybody who doesn't follow the official policy with 100 criminal complaints every couple of months or so, by different people.