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| Topic | Germany embraces fascism by cracking down on free speech |
| Zeus 07/04/17 11:50:08 PM #1: | Somehow missed this news on Friday and apparently nobody else has posted anything about it >_> A major law passes yet NPR was running an interview with people from Baby Driver that afternoon and a bunch of other junk. As such, I had to learn about it from one of Phil DeFranco's clickbait videos https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/business/germany-facebook-google-twitter.html Germany has passed a law placing insane compliance standards on social media content, with their laws potentially fining up to 50 million euros. Basically if they deem that somebody has posted something illegal, slanderous, racist, etc, and a social media site doesn't have it down in 24 hours, the site gets fined. In general, it seems like a pretext for a power grab where government can control a form of messaging which largely existed outside their reach. While I'm not sure that the fines are even enforceable, it could be used to have those companies not operate in Germany to stifle the public's voice. Which, again, given Germany's history, is a little terrifying. --- (\/)(\/)|-| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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