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Germany Gives Social Networks 24 Hours to Delete Criminal Content

posted by mrpg on Saturday April 08 2017, @11:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the delete-and-rewrite? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Germany has followed through on its proposal to make social networks remove slanderous hate speech and fake news or face massive fines.

The nation's Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz (Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection) has announced that cabinet approved a plan to force social network operators to create a complaints mechanism allowing members of the public to report content that online translate-o-tronic services categorise as "insults, libel, slander, public prosecutions, crimes, and threats."

The Bill approved by Cabinet proposes that social networks be required to establish complaints officer who is subject to local law and gets the job of removing obviously criminal content 24 hours after receiving a complaint. A seven-day deadline will apply to content that's not immediately identifiable as infringing. Social networks will also be required to inform complainants of the outcome of their takedown requests and to provide quarterly summaries of their activities.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:10PM (#490822)

    "Are things really this ridiculous over there in Europe?"
    Not yet atleast. Germany can go to hell. Normal people don't want that kind complete bullshit, which can never be justily enforced. Court order is understandable, but fuck automatic bullshit programs, or even most whiners, who do not know what is what.

    Had i a social service, Germans would be booted this second.