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?

[currently_awake]

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

Re:Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws.

[AutodidactLabrat]

...Another thing we should remember is that it's always the political left pushing for "hate speech" legislation.

And it is always the right pushing for MORE HATE SPEECH
I give you tRump and his "Blame on both sides" when the right decides murder is the solution to free speech (by antifa)

Re:Meh

[PopeRatzo]

There have been a significant number of cops killed in ambush style killings this year alone, increasingly often by people who've bought into the "anti-fascist"/anti-cop rhetoric of the left.

Citation, please.

Re:Meh

[edtice1559]

No, the raw data doesn't show this. What crime data shows is who is more likely to be *charged* with a crime rather than who is more likely to *commit* a crime. I don't know of any 200 number so that sounds like a citation needed. Maybe you are confusing 200% with 200 times. But if a white and black person get into an altercation, the black person is more likely to get charged. Therefore, black people tend to avoid this type of situation. Also urban poor tend to be black and being a member of the urban poor is a pretty tough lot in life.

Re:Meh

[PopeRatzo]

And that's off the top of my head.

And still not a single connection to the perpetrators of those crimes having anything to do with the antifascist movement.

Heather Heyer - not directly killed, hasn't been proven in court.

Oh, you're a comedian.

Taliesin Namkai Meche - Not killed by a nazi, but by a supremacist of a different flavor.

Uh-huh. A different flavor of nazi.

Richard Collins III - unable to make any tie. Posted to a facebook group called "alt-riech" which was nothing but shitposting and memes.

Shitposting and memes were how nazis communicated in 2017.

Re: Meh

[PopeRatzo]

So basically anyone who shitposts is a Nazi.

No, but all nazis shitpost.

Re:Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws.

[Aighearach]

None of those practice what is called the "left" in western society. Try again!