Hass comment on the Internet: 24-year-old is forced to regret in court

Hass comment on the Internet: 24-year-old is forced to regret in court

Innsbruck, Österreich - A 24-year-old Wahl Tiroler had to answer for his verbal abuses on the Internet and was in front of the Innsbruck Regional Court. In July last year he made a provocative comment under an Instagram contribution of a transperson in which he called on violence. "You should be slaughtered," was his clear threat in a moment when he was plagued by stress and an argument with his ex. Although the accused showed remorse for his stupidity, the judge in the court pointed out that the comment clearly calls for the crime and cannot simply be dismissed as carelessly, as reported by krone.at .

legal consequences

The legal provisions on the Internet are not to be neglected in Austria either; Users must adhere to applicable law, even in a supposed legal space such as the network. The Criminal Code (StGB) provides for clear paragraphs that are used for both cybercrime and for crimes committed outside the Internet. Paragraphs that are directed against hate speech and other offenses come into play when users have the potential for the damage to the damage to other people, such as police-praevention.de . The defendant must now take part in a program that relies on dialogue instead of hate to reflect on and change his behavior.

Apart from the immediate consequence, the judgment also has far -reaching meanings for users on the Internet: chats, comments and posts that are called up or insulting violence can be prosecuted. The defendant not only damaged his reputation, but also lost his job, which clearly shows how harmful impulsive and unadorned action can be on social networks.