Germany votes to fine companies who don't take down "obviously illegal" activity

bbc.com/news/technology-40444354

>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.

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foxnews.com/story/2008/05/16/dutch-cartoonist-arrested-on-suspicion-violating-hate-speech-laws.html
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you sound like a dumb child

then again, you are american
so it makes sense

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.

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.

Isnt this to stop Jihadis?

More like shooting the messenger.

are you retarded?

Name a country with a populace more retarded than the US.
Jesus fucking Christ this is pathetic.

This is not going to affect your country. Why so mad?

i wonder why some people defend fuckbook and shittube that are dirty and greedy as hell even though this law is far from perfect.

Germany

Americans didn't vote to let muslims take over their country and breed them into a minority in their ethnic homeland.

Because he is a 1/64 MUH HERITAGE german who is concerned about his "homeland"

Nobody here voted for that either

extremely stupid and uneducated post by a north american commoncuck

>all that German hate speech itt
MOOOD PLEASE DELETE ALL THIS HATE SPEECH

Reported to mummy Merkel, Hans

Upvoted xDDD

I agree, Heinrich, tossing people in jail for saying the Holocaust did not happen is pretty pathetic.

>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.

omg
americans really are the dumbest shits on earth aren't they

And this only affects us and not freedom land.
like I said

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.

You're pathetic

>autist finally begins to understand what an authoritarian government implies

It seems they aren't doing well on building their own budget.

these sites could just geoblock the "offensive" content so it doesn't show up in germany.

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?

your stupidity knows no boundaries

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.

Sadly. Wish all of you would get blocked from posting

You throw any Filipinos or Ethiopians off a roof?

Wait, does this mean we're going to finally geoblock Germans from accessing Sup Forums?

What a glorious day.

sorry man, but 4chin isn't social media. It's also not relevant enough around here.

>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

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 :/

Our justice Minister is a great guy

>Germans in this thread are defending this shit
lmao

no we are just laughing at OP and tell you fags to stop caring about other countries business

Why though? Dont you care when saudi executes people, at least in a distant sense? This IS weird and should be protested by everybody

>hate speech
will this meme ever end

unlikely

Its wrong for you

>stop caring about other countries business
You're saying this on the international discussion board.

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.

>Germany
>Freedom of speech
Europeans never really believed in it. They just thought it was a progressive thing to do.

>USA
The US is the only country that believes in freedom of speech desu.

express.co.uk/news/world/741655/Geert-Wilders-guilty-hate-crime-trial-discrimination-inciting-hatred-against-Moroccans

foxnews.com/story/2008/05/16/dutch-cartoonist-arrested-on-suspicion-violating-hate-speech-laws.html
Europeans, and east asians have so many bullshit regulations on it. It's ridiculous.

In America, apart from Slander and explicit incentivizing of violence. There is nothing that can stop your freedom of speech.

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.

I hate Germany so much. Letting them reunite was a mistake

...

Kill yourself you filthy sandnigger. Your country deserves to be leveled.

What you just said is hate speech hans, you're going to fined.

lol yeah. Sure.

kek nice shoop at the end faggot

Enjoy getting fined for basing Muslims.

No the german cucks defending this are.

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.

I'll take the seperation of powers for 200 $, Alex.

>Yeah sites will have 2 versions for Krautland and the rest of us.

You're an idiot.

Fuck you krauts are triggered.

>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.

whats the matter ahemd don't like the ignorant masses reading the truth?

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

This is why we will never join the EU

Looks like a SED minister.

>"haha its not censorship because its done by companies"
>this is actually what the popular reaction will be

We're laughing at how cucked you are.

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.

I think thats why they hate trump so much. He basically says the thing that should not be said.

Should have dissolved after ww2.

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.

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.

>If you are german, posting from germany hateful comments, you can get party van'd

People defend this.

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.

If FB deletes a German-speakers post, I can't see it wherever I am. This affects us all.

lmao is germany on the fast-track to destroying europe yet again?

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.

Why do they keep doing it?

>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

Are you actually arguing that polities should ignore human rights violations?

>America just bans everything they don't like

what

literally delet this the country

>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.

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.

>who actively go out of your way to make the world a worse place
I mean, we're Americans...

>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.

>You speak portuguese
>your religion is most likely Christian
>Saudi flag

u wot

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.

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.

Germany was a mistake

Did you guys notice how germens stopped posting LMAO?

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)

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.

Yeah because the world was a much better place before America stopped Europe from massacring each other every 5-10 years. Fuck off.

>Be German
>Change "Americans" to "Syrians" in this post
>Fined 50m Euro

Feels good to be American

>Let's imagine there's an island in the ocean where no civilized nation has ever set foot

That actually exists.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

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.

>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.

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.

>extremely stupid and uneducated post by a north american commoncuck
a Sup Forumsfag's a Sup Forumsfag's a Sup Forumsfag

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.

Butt hurt liberals defending this law.
Not surprised.

swede cucks defending illegal invasion and hate speech censorship laws.

What a fucking shock.