Facebook, Twitter and other social networks that do not eliminate hate messages or take longer than 24 hours to do so could impose fines of up to 50 million euros, that’s the law that the Justice Ministry has proposed.
This proposal, which extends to the reporting of manifestly false or unfounded news, has to be reviewed by the government and later approved by Parliament.
There is also a possible fine up to five million euros to people responsible for spreading such news and authors of racist and xenophobic comments.
The debate began in January with the case of Anas Modamani, a Syrian refugee who was insulted on Facebook for posting a picture with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. After Internet users accused the migrant of being linked to attacks, the social network of Mark Zuckerberg went to court for having deleted the messages belatedly. This idea is not for now. For some time now, Germany has been trying to find solutions to control the problem, which is increasingly worrying in the country.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday “We are eliminating too few offensive content, and we do not do it fast enough “. Hence, a 24-hour deadline for the elimination of clearly offensive messages has been established in the proposal, which extends to seven days in cases not so obvious.
Thanks for the info @vichetuc :)
You are welcome
Germany is one of the few countries of the world where any kind of hate speech is taken very seriously.
That is right
let me guess.
'hate' is anything they don't like?
Maybe
gotcha..
so...I don't like liquorish..
it's hate speech to talk about it.
it should be BANNED..
right?
I think the idea of it is great. But they would have to really analyze the posts to make sure they have reason.
Yes sure