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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.
Fun watching the SJWs eating their own.....
love is just extroverted narcissism
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.
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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.
Freedom of speech is a necessary pre-requisite for freedom, so it's worth mentioning:
The reason Germany has such strict anti-speech laws is actually a tool of oppression from the allies. They didn't want to have another uprising like Hitler leading into World War 3 (also part of the reason the US has military bases in Germany), so they took measures to ensure Hitler's specific type of propaganda would be oppressed.
So Germany is not an example to the world here, but neither were the laws intended to be.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Germany can not sue because the German government itself is criminally negligent because they can block it if they want to. Hence for Germany to sue Facebook, Germany must also sue itself.
You must be one those people who thinks gun manufacturers are liable when someone shoots someone else with a gun they made.
Do you also think car manufacturers should be liable for automobile accidents?
What about refrigerators? Is it the manufacturers fault when your food spoils? No wait, it must be the electric company's fault for not supplying enough power.
This broken logic has no place here.
And the US certainly isn't trying to make everyone forget the slave period ever existed by banning any kind of racist speech and rewriting literary classics to be politically correct, right?
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Here's what's been whitewashed (by both the Germans and the Americans):
Anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany was enormous before Hitler. Hitler wasn't some propaganda monster, he merely tapped into a current of hate that already existed. The hate that existed against Jews in Germany (and Austria) is disgusting. Look at some of the things Wagner said about Mendelssohn as one small example. Mahler was surrounded by hate for a decade merely because of his ancestry.
The Nuremberg show trials were show trials exactly for that reason: so we could blame it all on the leaders, and get over hating each other.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
It is about time. He has certainly incited a lot of hatred in me.
Thank you nice peaceful Germans for confirming that my hatred doesn't indicate anything wrong with me, it is caused by Zukerberg. Get him!
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
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?
"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?