Merkel has already told facebook and twitter to delete comments and ban accounts negative of her 'policies'.
Some comments comparable to those in question are curated at a tumblr blog (https://perlen-aus-freital.tumblr.com/). Those comments are anything but a political statement against Merkel's policies. They are born out of pure hatred.
Merkle and co. are trying to manipulate public opinion through the destruction of contrarian thought from the public realm.
On a related note, the hate speech laws have not been introduced by the Merkel government.
Those laws are also not created by "Merkel and co." but decades old and introduced by the allies after the second world-war.
When you stand on the street and loudly demand that specific people or groups of people should be killed or injured in specific ways, that's a different matter from just saying those same people shouldn't be allowed into the country or should be deported.
One is demanding a change in policy or political action. The other is demanding vigilante "justice" and lynching.
This has nothing to do with Merkel (who btw is a conservative -- her refugee policy has been the single most liberal thing she did since entering office) and everything to do with upholding the constitution and the state of law.
Whether you demand the murder of refugees, nazis or antifa, if you openly do so while addressing the public, you are committing a crime under German law. The law protects all humans, not just refugees.
The “no censorship (with some exceptions)” law in our constitution is usually interpreted in the sense that you can say, write, show, publish anything you want and that only afterwards a court can rule that it’s violating some law and censor it („Verbot der Vorzensur“). This principle is turned upside down when the government demands that private companies do the censoring and all public oversight is lost.
Also: I’m pretty sad that gone mad „Asylkritiker“ are here too :( I always thought of hackernews as this little civilized island.
Doing hate speech against ethnic groups or sympathize with Hitler in public is no problem for Facebook it seems (German: Volksverhetzung). Here in Germany it is and was against the law!
At the same time USA and facebook is getting crazy and deletes posts immediately if you see naked female body parts! This is not against any law here in Germany.
So what is more dangerous for the public?
Anecdotally speaking, FB & TW are doing an awful job of complying with Merkel's "supposed orders" as I see people dissing her and her policies esp. immigration whether for or against all the time and in German too.
On the sidelines of a United Nations luncheon on Saturday, Merkel was caught on a hot mic pressing Zuckerberg about social media posts about the wave of Syrian refugees entering Germany, the publication reported.
The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that "we need to do some work" on curtailing anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. "Are you working on this?" Merkel asked in English, to which Zuckerberg replied in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.
Don't you think that something that grave would warrant official communications instead other than informal exchange of words without a single mention of refugees or immigrants?
Much ado about nothing!