German authorities, meanwhile, have reached a deal with Facebook, Google and Twitter to get tougher on offensive content, with the outlets agreeing to apply domestic laws, rather than their own corporate policies, to reviews of posts.
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Its not politically correct to say anything against migrants. We dont have freedom of opinion anymore. #Cologne, Tweeted a German user from Hanover going by the handle Pulvermann.
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Harsh comments are earning some Germans more than scorn. In the town of Wismar in northeastern Germany, for instance, a judge in October sentenced a 26-year-old man to five months probation and a 300 euro fine after the man had posted on his Facebook page that refugees should burn alive or drown in the Mediterranean.
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A 29-year-old Berlin woman, meanwhile, received five months probation in July after she had posted comments on Facebook about an alleged rape of a German woman by an asylum seeker. Filth out! she wrote, arguing that if tougher measures against refugees were not deployed, more asylum seekers homes will burn.