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Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: German officials are stepping up their criticism of Facebook, saying the social network is doing too little to stop hate speech and could face stiff fines unless it deletes illegal content faster. In an interview published Friday, Justice Minister Heiko Maas said his ministry was checking whether it would be possible to make social networking sites legally liable for illegal posts. Germany has seen a sharp increase in vitriolic posts on social media in recent years amid a heated public debate over the influx of more than a million migrants since the start of 2015. The country has laws against speech deemed to be racist, defamatory or inciting violence -- a response to Germany's Nazi legacy. But authorities have struggled with the deluge of often anonymous postings on foreign-owned websites. Thomas Oppermann, a senior lawmaker in Maas' Social Democratic Party, told German weekly Der Spiegel that dominant social media sites like Facebook could be required to delete illegal posts within 24 hours or face fines up to 500,000 euros ($522,000). Facebook also could be compelled to distribute corrections that reach the same number of people as the original post, Oppermann suggested, something traditional media companies in Germany are already required to do.
With the rampant sexual harassment that was reported last New Year's Eve in Köln, I'm not sure if they're the Mexicans or pussy-grabbing Trump.
That said, does the US have problems with Mexicans that are religiously motivated to kill everyone that thinks differently from themselves?
We do, actually. We've had tons of attacks by latino terrorists, followed by extremist authoritarians / fascists (objective definition, I'm not labelling people here, I mean someone who actually supports a fascist system of government), and then by Jewish terrorists. Sadly, we don't have any hard statistics on Christian terrorism as a whole, but Christian and extremist xenophobia groups, such as the KKK, are indeed still active, having killed hundreds of Americans over the past decade alone, so that's another major problem the police have been struggling to deal with - 74% of police departments, in fact, rank these people as the most dangerous and violent of terrorists. They have been unofficially endorsed by both our president-elect and our vice president-elect, and so predictions for violence from these groups is expected to rise significantly over the next 4 years.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
1) They don't know the law.
2) Even if they did, many of them don't agree with it because infidels are wrong.
3) They contain a disproportionate number of military age men. It's a fact the world over that they are much more likely to commit crimes, especially violent ones.
4) Many of them owe money to traffickers, which means they will resort to anything to pay it back. Alternatively, they can be coerced.
I'd say your assertion is very likely to be untrue.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."