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.

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schadenfreude is German too

[avandesande]

Fun watching the SJWs eating their own.....

but of course

[ooloorie]

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.

One of the primary characteristics of the Nazi regime was its suppression of free speech and control of the media by the German government. It is depressing that, rather than defend free speech, Germans have learned nothing from their history.

Re:Oh Germany...

[rmdingler]

The fact that that Zuckerberg is Jewish makes the fact that he is being named in a German lawsuit about hate speech an holocaust denial particularly deliciously ironic.

Yes. Likewise, it is rather devilishly clever how fast freedom of speech can be called into question when it is renamed Hate. After all, hate is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone has the right to be offended. Too.

Christ, we are a mess.

Wrong and wrong. And wrong.

[Qbertino]

Dude, you got just about *everything* wrong in that headline. The only correct thing is "Mark Zuckerberg".

No trial. The Attorney Generals of Munich are investigating against Mark Zuckerberg. Big difference.
And it's not for inciting hatred. It is for enabling "Hate Speech". Big difference.

If it ever comes to a trial, I wonder how well this holds up in court.
I doubt it will come to a trial.

Facebook has only itself to blame

[mvdwege]

Really, if you ban nudity faster than you can say "b00b13s!" but leave outright hate speech and incitement to violence up, then you shouldn't be surprised that people actually start holding you accountable.

You either police your userbase, or you don't. If you do it halfway, you leave the impression you're taking sides, at best.

And for the libertard crowd who shout "Freeze Peach!"? You're free to create your own Facebook clone. What right do you have to force your idea of perfect user policies on Facebook, according to your own philosophy?