Satire Under Siege: The CJ Hopkins Case and the Indiscriminate Use of Germany’s Hate Speech Laws

December 7, 2025

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Is Europe’s “defensive democracy” stifling dissent? The raid on novelist CJ Hopkins for a satirical book cover and a surge in German online crime enquiries […]

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Satire Under Siege: The CJ Hopkins Case and the Indiscriminate Use of Germany’s Hate Speech Laws

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