Poll of the Day > Germany embraces fascism by cracking down on free speech

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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.
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Yeah.

But I get my absinthes from a German company and I don't live there so I don't care.
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I'm gonna wait to see what Trump says to form an opinion

Germany's go to is to ban things. I mean, they'd probably ban sarcasm if they felt it was harmful enough. My dad's family are German and there's probably a reason they're so uptight and don't talk about things, it's a cultural issue?
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

Germany's go to is to ban things.

Germany banned Wolfenstein 3D, which I played while I lived there :-X
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i was actually disturbed when they put that woman in jail for telling her boyfriend to go kill himself

how many needy ex-boyfriends don't need to be told to kill themselves? quite a few I'd imagine
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RoboXgp89 posted...

i was actually disturbed when they put that woman in jail for telling her boyfriend to go kill himself

how many needy ex-boyfriends don't need to be told to kill themselves? quite a few I'd imagine

You were disturbed? Why? What she did was a crime.

Zeus, I thought the New York Times was fake news so why are you citing them? Also, I'm truly shocked you actually provided proof for your claims.

I'm sure if Trump did this you would be ok with it. In fact, what's your opinion on Trump trying to get voter data from all the states?

Anyone wanna quote me on this so he can answer?
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There are strong hints that the Verfassungsgericht (basically our supreme court) is going to strike this down. I sure hope they will. The British Tories plan even worse internet censorship, Germany will set a precedent here and hopefully a good one.


Erik_P posted...

Anyone wanna quote me on this so he can answer?

Erik. Trying to bypass the ignore function is an unwanted contacting attempt. That's online harassment.
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OK Zeus.
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Ah, you get your news from YouTube - suddenly your posting material makes more sense.
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Erik_P posted...

RoboXgp89 posted...

i was actually disturbed when they put that woman in jail for telling her boyfriend to go kill himself

how many needy ex-boyfriends don't need to be told to kill themselves? quite a few I'd imagine

You were disturbed? Why? What she did was a crime.

It's not in her interest to manage other peoples mental health, nor is it anyone else's
Also suicide is a crime, it takes time away from health care proffesional's
he was harrasing her and trying to guilt trip her
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RoboXgp89 posted...

Erik_P posted...

RoboXgp89 posted...

i was actually disturbed when they put that woman in jail for telling her boyfriend to go kill himself

how many needy ex-boyfriends don't need to be told to kill themselves? quite a few I'd imagine

You were disturbed? Why? What she did was a crime.

It's not in her interest to manage other peoples mental health, nor is it anyone else's
Also suicide is a crime, it takes time away from health care proffesional's
he was harrasing her and trying to guilt trip her

Ok, so you're just trolling and talking bullshit. I thought you were serious for a second.
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I am serious that woman shouldn't have spent a day in jail
he had no business contacting her in that state she broke up with him
he put her in jail for his crime
if you tell a random stranger to kill themselves in passing should you go to jail for a day, a year even?
people should grow up
when someone says something weird or akward to you 'kill yourself' is a great response
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RoboXgp89 posted...

I am serious that woman shouldn't have spent a day in jail
he had no business contacting her in that state she broke up with him
he put her in jail for his crime
if you tell a random stranger to kill themselves in passing should you go to jail for a day, a year even?
people should grow up
when someone says something weird or akward to you 'kill yourself' is a great response

So you're doubling down on your trolling. Poor kid. Imagine thinking you're at all clever.

But sure, keep telling yourself she didn't do anything wrong. You should tell the prosecutors that filed charges against her, the cops who arrested her and the jury who convicted her that anonymous internet stranger knows more about the law than they do.
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turn off the internet
you might hurt yourself

*rolls eyes*
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