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sc94597 on 06 October 2015
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Barozi said:
sc94597 said:
Barozi said:
hilarious stance from some of the VGC users here.

Why should Facebook be different in that regard from VGC? Here you can't say everything you want either. This is a moderated place and it needs to be since it's public.
Also you're forgetting that this is a crime in Germany and other countries and has been for decades. Not much different from say posting child porn.

I have different standards for Facebook and VGC because they are different platforms with different audiences and with a different history of censorship. Apples to oranges. While I recognize Facebook's right to censor content, I will decide not to use their website if they started to censor at a large-scale effort. 

Except child porn actually involved the action of child molestation/rape to produce, while expressing anti-immigrant sentiment does not mean you are enacting what you say or feel. The real equivalent would be if the government started to get involved if somebody declared oneself as a pedophile (but not one who harmed.) 

But openly admitting that you're a pedophile is not a crime in itself. Incitement of the people on the other hand is (in Germany and some other countries).
Someone who "merely" owns and posts child porn also isn't accused for the child molestation but for owning and spreading the illegal media (=information).
And that is again very comparable to the topic.

But from the sounds of the OP it goes beyond incitement. There is a difference between desiring harm against someone and telling others to do it. Just as there is a difference between desiring sexual intercourse with a child and promoting the harm of children by purchasing content that was produced through the harm of the child. 

"Becker suggests that racist and xenophobic statements made in the presence of a child that constitute a “negative influence” would also be investigated by the authorities."

"Expressing a desire for violence against the migrants would constitute evidence enough for a family court to remove children from the home, according to Becker."