We must do a better job at restricting free speech. Have you seen, or heard, some of these Trump XENOPHOBES? My heavens, we must remove them from the internets and possibly intern them for reeducation purposes. Our civil society, one who is readily busy bombing the fucking shit out of minorities into the fucking ground, and who keeps minority neighborhoods wards of the state, wholly dysfunction and unsafe and without investment from our non-racist business leaders, cannot and will not tolerate hate speech.
As such, the historically kind and just and loving nation of Germany, single handedly responsible for over 100 million deaths over the past century, wants Facebook to take a more onerous and hardline approach to hate speech. You know, get rid of accounts of people who protest immigration or people detonating themselves in cafes, in the name of their God.
“Facebook has an immensely important economic position and just like every other large enterprise it has a immensely important social responsibility,” Thomas de Maiziere said.
“Facebook should take down racist content or calls for violence from its pages on its own initiative even if it hasn’t yet received a complaint.”
Last year Heiko Maas, the country’s justice minister, told Reuters that Facebook must abide by stricter German laws banning racist sentiment even if it might be allowed in the United States under freedom of speech.
De Maiziere said he recognized Facebook’s efforts to develop software that can better identify outlawed content and praised its efforts to fight child pornography. He said it was right to warn users in its terms against the dissemination of illegal content.
“But it’s up to the company to ensure those terms are upheld,” he said. “A company with a good reputation for innovation will have to earn a good reputation in this area.”
Eva-Maria Kirschsieper, Facebook’s head of public policy in Germany, told reporters during de Maiziere’s visit that the discussions between political leaders and companies in social media would continue.
“We see ourselves as part of German society and part of the German economy,” she said. “And we know that we have a major responsibility and we want to live up to this responsibility. We take this issue very seriously indeed.”
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In the hands of humans, Facebook is dangerous.
any decent tool/invention, from the club to the nuke to the twitter to the facebook, google, etc., if it can be used for purposes of power, greed, etc., will be usurped by those with the might in their hands, i.e. government vassals in order to control those from whom they derive their wealth and power
This shit gets worse by the day.
What you are saying offends me; therefore, it must be removed. Love it. Free speech as long as we agree with whatever you are saying.