Taking a bold authoritarian step towards fighting online hate speech, Germany intends to pass a law that would fine social media outlets up to $53m for failing to delete hateful comments within a designated time frame.
Out of all the social media outlets, YouTube is the best at monitoring hate speech, with a 90% removal rate inside a week. Facebook was second at 39% and Twitter an abysmal last at just 1%.
Lots of hate happening on Twitter these days. Evidently, something will have to be done about that.
“This (draft law) sets out binding standards for the way operators of social networks deal with complaints and obliges them to delete criminal content,” Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in a statement announcing the planned legislation on Tuesday.
Germany tried to do this the nice way, proposing a pledge to jointly fight hate speech on the social networks back in 2015. Alas, the time for soft words and half measures is over. All those who do not conform to these rules shall be punished, severely.
In Germany, hate speech is taken very seriously, often doling out harsh fines and even prison sentences for holocaust deniers or inciting acrimony against minorities. But in the era of free online speech, Germany finds themselves lacking in the authoritarian department. God willing, these new laws will put an end to that.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany welcomed the new law.
“We do not want an internet police or thought control,” the council’s president, Josef Schuster, said. “But when hatred is stoked, and the legal norms in our democracy threaten to lose their relevance, then we need to intervene.”
The new law mandates a code of conduct to be enforced, removing illegal material, reporting on the volume of complaints and to make it easier for other people to tell on one another. After all, it is the duty of the citizenry to report illegal activity, whenever they might encounter it.
To help fight against illegal comments, Twitter has introduced new automated tools that help identify abusive bahvior, screen out anonymous profiles like Le Fly, and simply block illegal content.
Over at Facebook, Zuckerberg has hired the help of fact finding services, like Snopes, Politifact and Correctiv to help rout out fake news, something that has been deemed unacceptable by all ruling factions.
It should be noted that Russian hackers are the prime cause for all of this upheaval, hacking away at the hearts and minds of millions of people — coercing them to partake in illegal online activities, winning elections for people favored by the Kremlin, and generally opposed to the rules of law set forth herein democratically free and prosperous republics.
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Germany is becoming East Germany.
Classic:
1) Control people’s language; thus,
2) Control their thoughts: thus,
3) Control their minds.
From what I see there is not much mind to control; mostly I see regurgitation
Congratulations you’ve been selected to be the next guest on InfoWars
I wonder what it is going to take, or be the tipping point, for people to start using some other social media platform aside from FakeBook, Instagram, etc., to be free to say what is on their mind, like some open source, uncensored, platform similar to:
https://joindiaspora.com/
https://freenetproject.org/
the fifth estate should have some sort of code of conduct….
It’s nice that the Anglosphere has the most robust tradition of freedom of speech and America is the best at it. Of course the dirty marxist don’t want us talking – that’s why they put ‘total’ in totalitarianism.
How can they not understand that the expression of divergent opinion can prevent what happened to them in the 1930’s? Thank God and the wisdom of America’s founders for the Bill of Rights.
Wait a minute. Krauts are born fucking fascists. No way.
You have a way with words ironman.
Be careful there. What you said could be construed as hate speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
Germany colonial rule
Well darn this is pretty upsetting huh
Trump’s White House is a breeding ground for hate and intolerance. Let’s face that exactly why you apes like him so much.
No hate on the left, nothing to see there. Is that Snoop Dog shooting Trumps head full of holes ? Nope, nothing to see there.
Who can blame Snoop?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html?_r=0
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york
Benny schill
You are a retard.
I blame your mom for not aborting you at 8 months.
You represent fascism and all the ugly ideas that go with it. Having you around keeps me watchful and aware of the evil lunatic idiots who share the same air as I.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
Oh yes.
And thank you for your service.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
Chuck you are lost, let me guess you probably believe the Central Park five were guilty? Ibankcoin if officially recognized in a short list of fake News sites, but keep swallowing flys load you little minion.
Benny schill,
Central Park 5 was from the 1980’s. It’s 2017 my friend.
You need to catch up with everyone else. Why are you stuck on stupid ?
Violence and oppression is wrong. Free speech and liberty for all should and rule the day.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
And benny(s)hill the blubberbutt goes gurgle, gurgle, blue, blurp.
Good. People were more productive before the internet anyway.