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Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred (dw.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deutsche Welle: A Munich court has opened a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, German media reported on Friday. News outlet "der Spiegel" wrote on its website, before the main weekly magazine's Saturday release, that it had obtained court documents charging the social media mogul with incitement to hatred. Zuckerberg is reportedly being charged alongside Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, chief Europe lobbyist Richard Allan, and his Berlin counterpart Eva-Maria Kirschsieper. According to Spiegel, the complaint comes from the Wurzburg-based attorney Chan-jo Jun. In the suit, he accuses Facebook of tolerating appeals for murder, threats of violence, and Holocaust denial, among other things. Laws regulating hate speech in Germany are extremely tight, with most Nazi symbolism and racist propaganda strictly forbidden, a legacy of Germany's role in World War II. Although Facebook is obliged to remove illegal content from its site, it has repeatedly garnered hefty criticism for the time it takes to do so.
They LOVE hate speech, but only when it's targeted at cis-gendered heterosexual white men.
Or people who disagree with their politics. Especailly if the objection is that you like their intentions, but implementing their idea would require a police state complete with thought-crimes*, orthodoxy and heresy and the federal government already has a frightening amount of power.
It's the one argument they never seem to address, ever. They won't tell you, "this is the level of power I find acceptable, and here's why I think it's worth the slippery-slope risk, see here and here are the checks and balances against it that will provide oversight and transparency". For Triple Bonus Points, they could say "here is where this idea has been tried and failed throughout history, here are concrete steps to avoid repeating that history". But they won't do that. What they will do is get more shrill and call you names, etc. So you see their power to persuade is low, to put it kindly.
The bulk of the problem is that most people just don't really know what they're talking about. They didn't arrive at their position through any sort of analysis and reasonable conclusion. They got there because their favorite opinion leader made it sound good.