Console releases are routinely self - censored for the
German market without affecting the rest of the continent; and if this was about the depiction of Swastikas and Nazi salutes (which is illegal in Germany under the
country's criminal
code, Strafgesetzbuch, section 86a), why were the alien probe scenes edited out too?
The
country has specific hate speech laws which criminalize certain types of speech, such as incitement to racial and religious violence, and the NetzDG law cites sections of the existing
German Criminal
Code — applying itself specifically to social media platforms.