• Germany imposes €50 million fines on social media firms that don't delete hate speech
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[QUOTE]Germany's parliament voted Friday to punish social media giants with fines of up to €50 million if they systematically fail to remove illegal hate speech. Berlin took the measure, one of the toughest in the world, after a surge in racist and incendiary speech online, particularly since the arrival of around one million asylum-seekers since 2015. Under German law, Holocaust denial, incitement of hatred, and racist and anti-Semitic speech are illegal. But critics warned that the prohibitive fines would stifle legitimate free speech by prompting online giants like Twitter and Facebook to excessively delete and censor posts as a precaution. Under the new law, companies like Twitter and Facebook would have 24 hours to remove posts that openly violate German law after they are flagged by users. Offensive content that is more difficult to categorise would have to be deleted within seven days after it is reported and reviewed. The government emphasised that the heavy fines would be imposed only if companies systematically failed to follow the new directive, and not for individual cases. Social media companies pledged in 2015 to examine and remove within 24 hours any flagged hateful comments, but a government report in April tracking progress on this front found that not enough had been done.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]https://www.thelocal.de/20170630/germany-imposes[/url] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Late" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
Seems stressful to put that heavy of a threat on the companies, especially with only 24 hours to address the problem. I can't imagine how many flagged posts they get in just 24 hours.
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