Germany's parliament voted Friday to punish social media giants with fines of up to €50 million if they systematically fail to remove illegal hate speech.
Berlin took the measure, one of the toughest in the world, after a surge in racist and incendiary speech online, particularly since the arrival of around one million asylum-seekers since 2015.
Under German law, Holocaust denial, incitement of hatred, and racist and anti-Semitic speech are illegal.
But critics warned that the prohibitive fines would stifle legitimate free speech by prompting online giants like Twitter and Facebook to excessively delete and censor posts as a precaution.
why don't the company just tell Germany to ban their site then?. Sounds like a huge risk to operate in Germany if Germany can just milk the company whenever their court-system wants to?
how is this even implemented
Owen Sanchez
Like I give a fuck
Charles Howard
>WE NEED MORE CHEAP LABOR FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL BOSSES SO WE CAN EARN MORE MONEY Don't be a bigot non-cuck? Why don't you spread your anus Hans and while you at it also give your job and pay more taxes, then that woman of yours is now nigger slaves, you can become a good tranny yourself too, that's so tolerant. Keep voting those Christian Democrats, they conserve Judaism so well.
Jose Hill
Breaking news: all social media blocked in Germany!
Global """hate speech"""on social media probably generates more revenue than all german users of said social media
Juan Hughes
Looks like a new E war is opening up.
call the troops...we have some shit posting to do
John Baker
Why don't they fine phone companies who carry hate conversations on their lines?
Owen Brown
Looking forward to Sup Forums being slammed with a 50 million dollar fine
Evan Flores
I did 3 tours in the meme war - the good guys lost
Daniel Gray
>hate speech literally >ban everything we don't like and literally >thought crimes Germany is full blown DDR again. Jesus christ. I want to get out but the entire west is as cucked as this.
Isaac Fisher
so they are gonna fine Sup Forums for same reason kek
Camden Myers
Fuck 'em. That's what I say. We dig deeper. Shit I'm sure alot of us here don't even use Fagbook or Twatter. They want another meme war. They'll get it.
John Hernandez
Like we'd even respond.
Alexander Robinson
Germany is a shit place, they even track the internet if you download something illegally and fine you.
Isaiah Taylor
only the UK and Sweden is as bad as that. Italy, Spain, eastern Europe no one really cares.
Ryan Reed
If you spammed fb and twitter with enough NSFW content, so much they couldn't possibly moderate it all, could they get sued into oblivion?
Jaxson Cooper
I feel increasingly sorry that they didnt win the war
this garbage would not come here were it not for our defeat 45
maybe it's quite the right time to move elsewhere desu desu
Ryan Carter
/thread
Brody Bell
I doubt this law is going to be enforced completely, as half of our politicians post "hate speech" themselves. Stuff like "you have to attack members of the afd". Once they get their own propaganda deleted they'll pull back and only apply it to people that do not share the goverment-issued position.
Evan Carter
even if its not enforced completely, this sets a precedent for abuse in the future for political purposes
Chase Robinson
Why are germans such cucks?
Dominic Hill
how does that even work? a post from Canada can get flagged by germans and it would have to be deleted?
Sebastian Myers
Spain, huh?
Jaxon Gomez
fuck off nigger
Nathaniel Kelly
Jewry won WW II that is why. Jews control almost every White nation now.
Jacob Perry
Looks like another staged photo.
Matthew Rivera
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Jack Diaz
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Zachary Gonzalez
The problem here is that they leave it completely open what "hate speech" actually is. They did not provide those companies with any clear rules.
So the companies will end up deleting absolutely everything just to avoid the fine. It's intentionally weakly defined so they can put all the blame on the companies when those end up deleting political dissidence rather than admitting that was what they were going for all along.
Julian Allen
>Germany is full blown DDR again.
>they allowed the reunification without also banning every single Eastern German from public offices to prevent communist subversion
They sure were fucking retarded to believe this was a generous gesture from communist Russia rather than just a Trojan horse.
Justin Garcia
Just spam Facebook and Twitter and make them pay to take it down
Win win
Jayden Nelson
50 million fines is not true, it would just go to court. comments which are obviously against the law have to get deleted within 5 or 7 days after flagging and the social media comps have to name a contact for the government. i mean fb is already censoring whatever they want, it wont change anything really - if you posted something illegal you could already get put to court, now there is just any resemblance of a consequence if the social media company doesnt give a fuck. still its a badly made law which was created and passed way too fast to put it into a legaly correct form, im pretty sure itll be judged illegal by the supreme court with the first lawsuit. (like what just happened with the nuclear-tax)
Ryan Hill
Yeah, the Spanish government payed hundreds of people to march and pretend to support a policy nobody likes. That's totally more likely than that there are hundreds of cucks in Spain willing to march for something like that.
You people are insane sometimes.
Isaac Scott
funny, but "Die Linke" was the only party which voted against the law
Anthony Rogers
HEIL HITLER
William Howard
Pretty sure that is mostly because the Linke is opposition by ideology though. They'll vote against almost everything simply out of principle - it's what keeps getting them elected, despite the fact that they'll never have any real influence. Because it's a protest vote.
Benjamin Green
So when are we invading Germany
Grayson Johnson
More likely a country wide range ban
Liam Walker
>Sounds like a huge risk to operate in Germany
If the fines outweigh the income from data mining analytics of the german population, then they would probably just block germany.
Kevin Green
Is "Fuck Germany, and fuck German muslims" hate speech? If yes, Fuck Germany, and fuck German muslims
Carson Rogers
Please make memes. Pic of Brutal Commie stormtrooper. Commie backdrop. "REPORT A GERMAN TODAY!" or REPORT ALL NON GOVERNMENT THOUGHTS or IT IS A CRIME TO COMPLAIN. THINK ONLY AS WE TELL YOU. or TRUST ME OR GO TO THOUGHT CAMP. or CONFORM TO GOVERNMENT THOUGHT NOW OR GO TO CAMP FOR SUMMER.
Jayden Clark
Just banned all accounts from German IPs for my start up. Feels litigation free, man.
Christian Rodriguez
We need to hang all the Jews and their lackeys in government in the streets.
Thomas Allen
#Report A German Today!
Should be trending. It is a 4D troll. It agrees with the government position so it won't get taken down. It lives, it spreads.
Eli Jones
Europe wants old world monarchism and ideological imperialism. Fuck Europe. USA is the genuine greatest
Brandon James
You need to hang Germans. Judging by the shit news I see on Sup Forums about us we are a far bigger problem than the jews.
Samuel Sanders
>payed >paid
Zachary Collins
Pls do. This time we actually need to be liberated
Camden Peterson
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED GERMAN
It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Germans began to hate.
They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the German began to hate.
Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the German began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd. It was not taught by the state. No man spoke it aloud When the German began to hate.
It was not suddently bred. It will not swiftly abate. Through the chilled years ahead, When Time shall count from the date That the German began to hate.
Christopher James
>be racist >have consequences >be mad Lol. You people deserve this
Noah Baker
DELETE THIS NOW
Elijah Murphy
Your people's compliant demeanor is taken advantage of by closet Commies. For this you should be gassed. German's do what they are told. Turn that to your advantage.
Blake Ross
>For this you should be gassed. This will be what I focus on in your post and I completely agree.
Parker Bell
>Sup Forums >social media
Brayden Russell
What is hate speech to you, is not hate speech to others. It is all subjective. Me giving a statistic that most terrorist attacks are from Islam can be considered hate speech now. How is there any room for debate when you cant speak freely about sensitive topics? This is getting closer and closer to real fascism. Brought to you by the left.
Henry Morales
because muslims are sandnigger faggots who suck cum out of their queer prophets hairy prolapsed asshole. Choke on nigger shit, faggot muhammad and all of her followers will be raped in hell by pig demons
Charles Lopez
>Cash cow Are they smart or what, I hope they IP range ban the whole union.
Caleb Sanders
I don't get this hatespeech thing. Is this just about blocking people and punishing them for telling the truth?
Like what if I said the following:
>People are taking this feminism thing too far now. It was meant for population control and it's supposed to be about just making women work so it can lower wages and make it harder to have families. Meanwhile pretending that sitting in a cubicle for hours while hearing printers go off feels liberating.
Would I get my door ripped off the hinges and get raided by the police if I said this in germany?
Samuel Adams
it protects kikes, niggers, muslims and faggots. Literally nothing else. They are demons, and they are going to burn eternal for their crimes
Connor Wright
Nothing would happen. But you can't say stuff like "Gas the kikes, race war now. Holocaust was a lie. Shoot all niggers" etc.
Lucas Jones
lolllllllllllll
Jack White
A private company deleting speech it doesnt agree with on its own private servers is perfectly fine, if a little cunty. A government forcing them to censor their private servers is a breach of basic human rights. Actual human rights, not the retarded shit eurocucks consider rights like resources and services that actually belong to other people.
Tyler Taylor
Numbers don't lie
Cameron Butler
About time you folks Jo Cox some of those legislators.
Gavin Jackson
You should, this is probably going to be every country in 10-15 years. We will look back on these years as the good old days, when we could still relatively say whatever we want on the web. The NWO is coming, unless we somehow win, but I can't see that happening.
Ethan Foster
Well if that's the case than I don't care much. It's still feels draconian though.
Adrian Reyes
And now phase 2 of the "flood Europe with Muslims" begins. Illegal to criticize, illegal to complain, illegal to tell anyone else what is happening to you or your neighborhood.
Evan Green
How about social media and YouTube no longer is allowed for Western Europe? If they want to be like China with censorship we should just take the platform away and give them what they want.
Jordan Anderson
Stasi are back in full swing
Ayden Hughes
Who defines hate speech? A government who doesn't agree with your political ideology or stand on refugees? Fuck that.
Lucas Bennett
>And now phase 2 of the "flood Europe with Muslims" begins. Illegal to criticize, illegal to complain, illegal to tell anyone else what is happening to you or your neighborhood. It's the UN one world order bullshit.
Tyler Young
>These people are still emphasizing how censorship is an indicator and enabler for dictatorship
Cameron Jones
We fucking warned them this would happen. Sup Forums has pointed out this pattern many many times.
Grow a pair Germany before it's too late.
Connor Ward
The meme war never ended, you fucking cuck. You scum aren't the good guys, no matter how much brown dick you suck.
Zachary Roberts
I said this yesterday, they would impose financial sanctions against Facebook etc when they asked how they could impose this new hate speech law thing.
Called it the fuck out.
Jace Gutierrez
>no more krauts on 4chines
mook would never pay a fine
Brayden Fisher
>Faceberg gets fined over hate speech >Blocks service in Germany >Normies chimp out Could be good in the long run.
Dominic Roberts
Those are catalans, the niggers and commies of spain so not a point.