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

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, @01:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @01:52PM (#490838)

    There are people that work with torture in Chinese facilities right now.
    In the Pinochet torture chambers.
    Persons to turn in people that had the wrong ideas in the communist block.
    Other staffed extermination camps in WWII and then went to their family life in the evenings.
    Turkish army staff to exterminate Armenians.

    There are always some morally defunct individuals to do whatever evil deed their master asks them too. Some even believe it's for the good..

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @05:31PM (#490908)

    There are always some morally defunct individuals to do whatever evil deed their master asks them too. Some even believe it's for the good..

    I think it's the opposite. In my experience at least, people who are the most evil feel they have a mandate from their god to do the evil they wish to do.

    Look at Christians and Moslems for plenty of examples.

    Only by being convinced of the righteousness of their actions can they frame objection to their actions as attempts to deceive them by the "true" evil, which makes them all the more fervent.