Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com)

Germany is set to start enforcing a law that demands social media sites move quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material. From a report: Sites that do not remove "obviously illegal" posts could face fines of up to 50m euro ($60m). The law gives the networks 24 hours to act after they have been told about law-breaking material. Social networks and media sites with more than two million members will fall under the law's provisions. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be the law's main focus but it is also likely to be applied to Reddit, Tumblr and Russian social network VK. Other sites such as Vimeo and Flickr could also be caught up in its provisions.

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Re:Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better?

[Mr D from 63]

They are trying to prevent the Evil that happened before from coming back. Hate speach against Jews -> violence against Jews -> death camps for Jews.

Very understandable. Yet one thing very important to the NAZI government was control of the media and its content, so they should proceed with caution.

Re:Meh

[Mashiki]

Remember those 5 cops killed in Dallas(plus 12 injured) in 2017? Yeah, he bought into the anti-fascist/anti-cop rhetoric. So was the female cop sitting in the evidence van and had her brains smeared all over the inside. Oh did I mention she was also black and a single parent, and the person was also an anti-fascist/anti-cop nut. Then there were the two troopers in Georgia, another in Tennessee again the same garbage. And that's off the top of my head. Several more in Michigan, and on and on and on. Out of those, almost every case the person was an anti-cop and/or anti-fascist nut, who left behind long screeds justifying their murder of people.

Despite your list up at the top:
Heather Heyer - not directly killed, hasn't been proven in court. Maybe indirectly. Was not struck by the vehicle, died of heart attack. Was massively overweight, and a chain smoker.
Taliesin Namkai Meche - Not killed by a nazi, but by a supremacist of a different flavor.
Ricky Best - Same as above, linked to same story as Meche. Also suspect has yet to have their day in court.
Richard Collins III - unable to make any tie. Posted to a facebook group called "alt-riech" which was nothing but shitposting and memes. That's by the media's own fact checking in this case.
Timothy Caughman - unable to make any tie. Appears to be exactly the same as the black guy who walked up to a white guy a few years ago and shot him. Reasoning is the same "wanted to kill x group"
Srinivas Kuchibhotla - unable to make tie. Only sources are reportedlies and hearsay.
Buckley Kuhn-Fricker & Scott Fricker tied together. Unable to make tie, claims of "nazi behavior." Again no evidence, only reportedlies and hearsay.

In all of those above cases, there are no direct ties, no ranting screeds. You know, I'm sure someone can bring out the "all those white people killed by blacks" over the last 20 years, and were killed just because they were white if they really wanted. I mean come on, it's not like BLM has come out saying hate whitey or to shoot cops or anything. Oh right, they've said both...