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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, @09:30PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @09:30PM (#490978)

    insults and public prosecutions? please, germany drag merkel through the street then hang her carcass in the town square..

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @09:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @09:42PM (#490983)

    Don't forget Canada with their blasphemy law [wikipedia.org] from 2017. Right there with Iran and other nice company .. ;->

    Soon enough all Germans will greet each others using Merkels name. And the Bundesregierung will mysteriously go up in flame. But don't worry, der Merkel knows it's those evil racists. So of course they can't be on the streets anymore. Instead camping grounds outside cities will be setup where people that believe in something, like stoning of un-believers will teach them about peace, a lot of peace.

    • (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday April 09 2017, @03:23AM

      by dry (223) on Sunday April 09 2017, @03:23AM (#491056) Journal

      Oh no, government condemning bigotry. A motion to condemn something is different then a law.