Posted on 01/09/2016 11:12:15 AM PST by Lorianne
Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours, a new step in the fight against rising online racism following the refugee crisis.
The government has been trying to get social platforms to crack down on the rise in anti-foreigner comments in German on the web as the country struggles to cope with an influx of more than 1 million refugees this year.
The new agreement makes it easier for users and anti-racism groups to report hate speech to specialist teams at the three companies, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said.
"When the limits of free speech are trespassed, when it is about criminal expressions, sedition, incitement to carry out criminal offences that threaten people, such content has to be deleted from the net," Maas said. "And we agree that as a rule this should be possible within 24 hours."
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Well, it started a while back but it has taken the turn we ultimately knew it would now. Wonder how long it is until we have "criminal expression" here in the USA. Hate crimes laws were the thin end of the wedge.
Hate Speech = Political Speech
Exactly.
What we need to do is flood these socialist media sites with complaints of every liberal statement on them. Flood them so that they are so busy investigating reports they can’t actually do anything.
You know, Cloward-Piven these jackasses.
Meanwhile Facebook, Google, and Twitter will all still be used by Islamic supremacists to recruit and coordinate terrorist activity and jihad.
Can’t get much closer than this to crazy.
I actually should have said:
Political Speech = Hate Speech
The party in power can completely silence the opposition that way.
I doubt they have enough Arabic-speaking people on their staffs to be able to handle the workload. Not going to happen...at least not completely.
That’s ok. When 75% of the populace is telling the truth, let’s see them imprison them all.
Yes!
But they will just close down accounts like crazy.
I don’t even use any of these accounts, though I have a long disused Facebook account languishing on the internet somewhere.
But people who have those accounts need to be the frontline warriors to fight this censorship.
Germany’s crooked government doesn’t want to be challenged.
We all know what the real problem is.
The Muslim invaders should be sent to prosperous Muslim countries where they can be dealt with properly by other Muslims.
That’s mighty white of them.
What’s more, by deleting the historical record of such comments, when someone DOES go into Sudden Jihad Rage, their public statements that were a matter of record and can no longer be brought to light to challenge government proclamations that ‘nothing about this attack suggests that it is an act of terrorism”.
If free speech is outlawed only criminals will have free speech.
Yes, you nailed it. This will be used against alarmed Germans who want to save their country and not the jihadi warriors invited in by Merkel to destroy the existing social order.
You and most other Freepers have been rightly worried about that for some time.
It is a Criminal Expression to speak the truth about Islam in England and Canada, as recent gov’t criminal legal prosecution cases have proven.
UN hate speech laws have been authored by Islamic authorities.
1984 is here.
It’s Now time to protest and revolt while you still can.
The US 2011 NDAA permits INDEFINITE detention, without due process, of US citizens found to be belligerent toward gov’t.
No Maas.
nice ... wonder if Germans would get it.
Is this hate speech?
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
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