>Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government plans to fine social media networks such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. if they fail to combat hate speech, as German officials accuse media companies of being too slow to take action.
>Volker Kauder, chairman of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union parliamentary caucus, said on Saturday that he reached a preliminary agreement with Social Democratic Justice Minister Heiko Maas that would require companies to respond to speech complaints within 24 hours. Otherwise they’ll have to pay.
>“The fines have to hurt, otherwise it won’t work,” Kauder told reporters Saturday at a meeting of the CDU’s leadership in the western region of Saarland.
>“This is simply about what is valid in the real world also counts in the digital world,” Kauder said, rejecting a query on whether such measures are censorship.
>Justice Minister Heiko Maas told German newspaper Rheinische Post that Facebook needed to improve its process for deleting hate posts. The government will take legal action if it finds that the social media company is moving too slowly, the newspaper said.
Ryder Peterson
Merkel Coalition = Hillary Clinton 2.0
Joshua Gray
Germany needs to grow a pair and kill her.
Landon Martinez
Hate Speech
Wasn't this a term created in 1984? A book centered on showing how a government would take the liberties of the people?
William Garcia
"Everything i dont like is hate speech."
This will turn into a complete clusterfuck and backfire really fast.
Liam Clark
they try to stop facebook news and things like that? didn't work 4 Hillary, but hey, wasn't real censorship, she can try harder
Oliver Morgan
not really considering fake news/ hate speech is basically real life reddit ratios of liberals : conservatives in US it's approximately 1:1 in EU it's approximately 3:1 you guys are fucked
Landon Davis
Merkel attempts to fine facebook for not censoring anything she deems as dissent against the leftist agenda.
Facebook bans all German IPs and removes services from Germany.
Germans now left without a voice.
Merkel is proud of her victory against hate speech.
This will probably happen.
Lincoln Walker
Yep, that's what the CDU is like.
Also more surveillance. But not enough resources to actually monitor jihadist.
Nolan Harris
>Merkel's Germany >Christian, democratic, or a union
Daily reminder Merkel and her minister of immigration ought to be indicted for treason and hung from lampposts.
Joseph Gray
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Nathan Bell
Scary shit. This is the road we're going down.
John Campbell
i honestly want to know why every faggy european country elects women, you guys are seriously cucked beyond saving
Caleb Reyes
Tyranny can't survive freedom of speech, so tyrants naturally want to control speech.
Christopher King
> A book centered on showing how a government would take the liberties of the people?
yes, it is used as manual here.
James James
If you Nazi shitlords would behave maybe Grandma Merkel wouldn't have to be so strict.
Nicholas Ward
Too far.
Brandon Cox
Would you Sup Forums?
Jackson Jenkins
"No."
Joseph Martin
This is taking away a circus.
Angel Cook
Let it be known, this is the true sentiment of Merkel...Any doublespeak about regretting or lessening the entry of rapefugees, is nothing but lipservice in order to stay in power, and to further destroy Germany.
Levi Turner
Who won the war? was it east Asia or Eurasia.
Joseph Harris
Can we unironically start a coup in Goymerny already? WE need to somehow get east germany to succeed or something, or somehow cause massive civil unrest in order to cause the populous to rise up and kill merkle.
God, it just depresses me seeing the state of Germany, it's not even funny, it's just black pill inducing.
Evan Turner
trump will annex germany for human rights violations
Christian Jenkins
This isn't just gonna effect Germany, this is gonna effect social media on a global scale. I swear to fucking god they're closing in, Obama with the NDAA and Merkel with this shit.
Asher Edwards
JUST KILL HER ALREADY
Carter Myers
Germans are becoming Nazis once more. Someone Call Britain, Russia. We got to stop them again
Jason Cox
But thought Sup Forums believes censorship is based.
Leo Brown
Hey burger, can I buy a gun from you? I feel like you have a point.
Carson Cruz
In what world do you live? Pol is afraid for the future, that's why they're angry. Stop being so jewey
Juan Sanders
There will always be a balance in the world. We got an extreme hardcore right wing president, Germany has to fill the leftist void in the world. If she fails, someone else will take her place.
Jaxon Reyes
Well leaf, I don't think your liberal cunt of a prime minister would let me.
Jace Campbell
>In what world do you live? In the world where Sup Forums applaud for achievements of based censorship in other countries? Now it is time for 1st world Sup Forums to get taste of it themselves.
Jose Foster
>We got an extreme hardcore right wing president
You didn't. Trump is pretty moderate despite the media building him up as literally Hitler.
Levi Garcia
Okay he is a bit socially liberal. I should have said an extreme hardcore right wing administration.
Bentley Gonzalez
>Now
Are you retarded? Europe and Canada have been censoring shit forever. What's notable is how they're trying put pressure on social media to censor.
Landon Martinez
In other words, internet censorship and the slippery slope that entails and its effects on the world wide web is the relevant issue here.
Germany has had retarded "hate speech" laws for way longer than that.
Xavier Hughes
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Mason Campbell
what happens to germany if facebook (or any form of social media really) just pulls out all services from their country what will germany do then ?
