>Social media companies in Germany face fines of up to 50m euros ($57.1; £43.9m) if they fail to remove "obviously illegal" content in time.
>From October, Facebook, YouTube, and other sites with more than two million users in Germany must take down posts containing hate speech or other criminal material within 24 hours.
>Failure to comply will result in a 5m euro penalty, which could rise to 50m euros depending on the severity of the offence.
I'm sure this will not be used to censor ANYBODY the ruling party doesn't like.
Social media companies should just abandon anti-free speech shitholes like Germany.
Let them have their own social media site, where only government-approved thoughts are shared.
Hudson Martin
I agree desu. It's idiotic that we should have over our freedom for countries like Germany. Or China. Or the UK. Or the USA.
Camden Peterson
Isnt this to stop Jihadis?
Noah Perry
More like shooting the messenger.
Caleb Morris
are you retarded?
Carter Taylor
Name a country with a populace more retarded than the US. Jesus fucking Christ this is pathetic.
Julian Barnes
This is not going to affect your country. Why so mad?
Connor Hill
i wonder why some people defend fuckbook and shittube that are dirty and greedy as hell even though this law is far from perfect.
Samuel Diaz
Germany
Americans didn't vote to let muslims take over their country and breed them into a minority in their ethnic homeland.
Wyatt Barnes
Because he is a 1/64 MUH HERITAGE german who is concerned about his "homeland"
Jaxon Long
Nobody here voted for that either
extremely stupid and uneducated post by a north american commoncuck
Ayden Allen
>all that German hate speech itt MOOOD PLEASE DELETE ALL THIS HATE SPEECH
Justin Scott
Reported to mummy Merkel, Hans
James Cooper
Upvoted xDDD
James Collins
I agree, Heinrich, tossing people in jail for saying the Holocaust did not happen is pretty pathetic.
Eli Morgan
>This is not going to affect your country. Are you pretending to be retarded hans? If I post >gas the kikes, hitler was did nothing wrong on facebook then facebook has to delete it or they will get fined by your wonderful reich.
Easton Bennett
omg americans really are the dumbest shits on earth aren't they
Parker Gomez
And this only affects us and not freedom land. like I said
Lincoln Miller
There is nothing saying that it only affects posts by Germans. Any social network with over 2 million German users must comply. Your country is a cancer upon the world and should have been razed after ww2 rather than reconstructed.
Evan Cook
You're pathetic
Robert Sanders
>autist finally begins to understand what an authoritarian government implies
Brayden Brown
It seems they aren't doing well on building their own budget.
Jayden Williams
these sites could just geoblock the "offensive" content so it doesn't show up in germany.
Evan Scott
The fact that you think this is going to be global shows that you are dumb. I mean do you actually think your government will take orders from our government? Are you really this naive?
Owen Evans
your stupidity knows no boundaries
Michael Wright
the only good internet is an internet sanctioned, controlled and distributed by the government.
The internet opens a window on the west in places that are not western. It sparks revolts and foments attitudes that destabilizes monarchs and governments.
And while this is all fine and dandy under the flag of "universal human rights" and "everyone deserves the same" what will do in the medium to long term is to shift huge swats of popuiation into attempting to migrate in the west.
Which clearly isn't good for the west.
In this sense, the internet it's similar to a fast acting poison that infects the mind of people with ideas that don't pertain to their current state of living.
Nicholas Rodriguez
Sadly. Wish all of you would get blocked from posting
Landon Mitchell
You throw any Filipinos or Ethiopians off a roof?
Hunter Phillips
Wait, does this mean we're going to finally geoblock Germans from accessing Sup Forums?
What a glorious day.
Leo Morgan
sorry man, but 4chin isn't social media. It's also not relevant enough around here.
Ian Price
>The internet opens a window on the west in places that are not western. >It sparks revolts and foments attitudes that destabilizes monarchs and governments. not all westerners use english though
Daniel Mitchell
Even if I did, it would never make the news.
and it would be fucked up by both of our standards only if the motivations were different. Meaning that probably for most canadians it would be wrong regardless of the reason behind it while here there would be chances when it's more than justified.
Sure, but my point still stands. English or not English I truly don't understand what you're trying to say :/
Lincoln Gutierrez
Our justice Minister is a great guy
Leo Howard
>Germans in this thread are defending this shit lmao
Charles Cruz
no we are just laughing at OP and tell you fags to stop caring about other countries business
Adam Ward
Why though? Dont you care when saudi executes people, at least in a distant sense? This IS weird and should be protested by everybody
Luke Morgan
>hate speech will this meme ever end
Tyler Bell
unlikely
Gavin Watson
Its wrong for you
Angel Cruz
>stop caring about other countries business You're saying this on the international discussion board.
Adam Phillips
Again: why the fuck do you care? I thought you guys love jerking off to le ebin germ genocide. And now your dream basically comes true and all you do is complain.
William Mitchell
>Germany >Freedom of speech Europeans never really believed in it. They just thought it was a progressive thing to do.
Blake Green
>USA The US is the only country that believes in freedom of speech desu.
In America, apart from Slander and explicit incentivizing of violence. There is nothing that can stop your freedom of speech.
James Evans
No. The opposite. It's intended to star a moral police kind of thing on the internet. Banning users who bully or insult others.
Ridiculous.
Asher Davis
I hate Germany so much. Letting them reunite was a mistake
Caleb Lewis
...
Jose Mitchell
Kill yourself you filthy sandnigger. Your country deserves to be leveled.
Jeremiah Evans
What you just said is hate speech hans, you're going to fined.
Parker Gray
lol yeah. Sure.
Joshua Torres
kek nice shoop at the end faggot
Charles Rivera
Enjoy getting fined for basing Muslims.
Noah Perry
No the german cucks defending this are.
Landon Clark
They could, OR they could just comply with the Germans and eventually all of the EU, and remove the comment entirely, simply because it would be easier, than having to geotag shit.
It would also pressure social medias to have a heavier and more stringent surveillance system.
Germans are cucks, who like to force things on the entire world. Their "gracious" act to accept a million refugees ended up affecting the entire EU as they force everyone to pick up their slack after they couldn't take any more. Many of the ones who got to germany only later immigrated to other EU countries.
Hudson Taylor
I'll take the seperation of powers for 200 $, Alex.
Jaxon Ortiz
>Yeah sites will have 2 versions for Krautland and the rest of us.
You're an idiot.
Chase Peterson
Fuck you krauts are triggered.
Caleb Smith
>need to hire a separate modstaff and dev team to run the German language part of Facebook anyway >tell those guys to be more strict >??????? >profit
This thread is primarily relevant to Americans as an example of the perennial danger that liberty faces from retards.
Nicholas Lopez
whats the matter ahemd don't like the ignorant masses reading the truth?
Xavier Reed
That's not how it works. German law applies to german citizens, so if a german or someone from germany posts "hate speech" on the internet, the company is required to delete the post, or else it gets fined. >sorry man, but 4chin isn't social media You are wrong. The fact that Sup Forums owners won't give a fuck about facing german fines means nothing. If you are german, posting from germany hateful comments, you can get party van'd
Colton Martin
This is why we will never join the EU
Nolan Gray
Looks like a SED minister.
Jonathan Clark
>"haha its not censorship because its done by companies" >this is actually what the popular reaction will be
Jackson Nguyen
We're laughing at how cucked you are.
Carter Gomez
Because it will end up affecting us. If you want to sterilize all white men in germany and set up german female toilets for refugees, i would not give a fuck.
But having Germans forcing American companies to change their policies which will undoubtedly affect the entire base, pisses me off. I don't even use FB, but it sets a terrible precedent for greater control of people's speech online.
Thanks AGAIN.
Daniel Perez
I think thats why they hate trump so much. He basically says the thing that should not be said.
Kayden Lee
Should have dissolved after ww2.
Ryan Ross
Yeah you know it won't just be for "german sites" its for anything that gets a complaint.
Jesus anyone who defends this deserves cancer.
Caleb Hall
Facebook is run out of Southern California, they already censor all the good stuff.
This is basically just telling them to hire more modstaff to check the report queue.
This being said, Germans can and should be mocked at every turn for being given a third chance and still fucking it up.
Juan Lee
>If you are german, posting from germany hateful comments, you can get party van'd
People defend this.
Samuel Murphy
What you should do instead of complaining is set up an exclusively white supremacist social network and try to get enough German users to get over the threshold.
Christian Davis
If FB deletes a German-speakers post, I can't see it wherever I am. This affects us all.
Easton Ross
lmao is germany on the fast-track to destroying europe yet again?
Jose Scott
Why?
I agree that the government should stop meddling with funding less than reputable organization and instead diverge those money into bettering the economy for its own citizens.
However I do not agree with this forced westernization of the world. The way I see it, as long as each place doesn't interfere with the others (unfortunately my government does) other countries should really mind their own fucking business.
And all the people claiming that their government have a moral imperative in safeguarding the respect of human rights (ideas born in the west, out of society that were culturally, intellectually and historically much distant from the non western world of today) should realize that that's fucking bs. If it weren't for the oil here. No one would give 2 fucks about the arab peninsula and what goes on here.
William Reyes
Why do they keep doing it?
Hudson Nelson
>Germany fines sites hosting CP and hired assassinations >This is somehow weird and unexpected
>Britain outright bans GTS porn and latex >This is somehow accepted and commended
>America just bans everything they don't like while selling your private information and fabricating speedblocks to jack up prices >WE'RE #1 EUROPE IS DOOMED AGAIN
Hudson Morris
Are you actually arguing that polities should ignore human rights violations?
Brody Cruz
>America just bans everything they don't like
what
Jason Rodriguez
literally delet this the country
Julian Jackson
>Why? Because you're satan worshipping savages who actively go out of your way to make the world a worse place and the world would benefit mightily if your entire goatfucking populace was rounded up and gassed.
Blake Bennett
The US doesn't have to trade with people, and they don't have to protect people.
It just so happens that the countries with a western understanding of government dominate the planet, and they may not choose to trade with or protect you if your country abuses its citizens.
Mason Richardson
>who actively go out of your way to make the world a worse place I mean, we're Americans...
Zachary Diaz
>westernization The world is already westernized, idiot. You speak portuguese, and dress in American or European style clothing, your religion is most likely Christian, from marriage to funerals, everything is westernized.
You live in a Western world. You just choose to ignore the vast majority of your customs and focus on small things that set you apart, and claim as not western.
Owen Diaz
>You speak portuguese >your religion is most likely Christian >Saudi flag
u wot
Cooper Torres
Net neutrality dies in 66 days. More accurately, your net neutrality. Then Britain's. And then GermahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no wait we already decided against it because it was inhumane and retarded.
Nathaniel Price
LELEL
For some reason I saw the brazilian flag. WTF.
Nevermind those.
But many things from clothing, to customs and points of view in the world are totally westernized.
There is some exceptions like highly isolationist societies that are behind in many aspects.
Saudi Arabia being probably a good example.
Daniel Murphy
Germany was a mistake
Camden Garcia
Did you guys notice how germens stopped posting LMAO?
Nicholas Reed
They already do. Nothing is done against what goes on here because we have oil.
Then you look at countries like Italy and Greece that were FINED for returning boats full of migrants back to Libia.
What goes on here it's much worse than returning a boatload of immigrants yet barely anybody bats an eye.
What I'm saying is that the concept of human universal right is not really universal and can only exist extracted from world cultures.
Let's imagine there's an island in the ocean where no civilized nation has ever set foot. The inhabitants practice their culture and religion which involves I don't know, amputating a finger to every other child and killing every 3rd born infant.
Now those practices are barbaric and unjust according to my standards and I'm assuming to yours. Yet I believe we should have no right in interfering with what goes on.
Pertaining to the article, it bothers me that Germany goes against what I believe is one of their core founding principles which is freedom of thought.
Here we don't have such a principle as the base for our society so wouldn't be surprised or upset if something like that happened here (it already does)
William Butler
Belief has nothing to do with this. EU law states that you can't just send refugees back. It worked perfectly for the past 60 years and changing the laws take time.
Jacob Perry
Yeah because the world was a much better place before America stopped Europe from massacring each other every 5-10 years. Fuck off.
Aaron Walker
>Be German >Change "Americans" to "Syrians" in this post >Fined 50m Euro
Feels good to be American
Aaron Parker
>Let's imagine there's an island in the ocean where no civilized nation has ever set foot
As for the principle of non-interventionism, I'd argue that a state is only legitimate insofar as it represents the will of the citizens.
But now that colonialism is over, the whole idea of Universal Human Rights is more of a
>you can fuck with powerful western countries >you can abuse human rights >but you can't do both at the same time without getting fucked up
Which I feel is reasonable.
Evan Foster
>Being this delusional
Is it just me or are Americans extra idiotic today? It's a shame, american posted used to be decently coherent at least.
Caleb Miller
Why do you hate a free internet though? Who is to decide what is hate speech and what isnt.
You are going literally against the ideals of what the west was founded upon. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire Read a book and stop listening to state run media dumb Swede.
Owen Sanders
>extremely stupid and uneducated post by a north american commoncuck a Sup Forumsfag's a Sup Forumsfag's a Sup Forumsfag
Grayson Miller
See what I'm saying? Regular americans would at least have seen and realized that the EU is the last place on earth to have free internet.
Now? It's all just low quality baiting, with lots and lots of unwarranted self-importance. It's like a caricature of what a really obnoxious and stupid American would be like.
Wyatt Torres
Butt hurt liberals defending this law. Not surprised.
Hunter Ramirez
swede cucks defending illegal invasion and hate speech censorship laws.