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new measures are designed to make it easier to identify hate crime on the Internet. In future, platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will not only be able to delete posts that incite hatred or contain death threats, but also report them to the authorities, along with the user’s IP address.

ossibility of extending the scope of the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz

new rules on hate crime will be added to the German Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code), while the definition of existing offences will be amended to take into account the specific characteristics of the Internet.