Posted on 08/08/2016 10:07:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Facebook on Monday dismissed complaints by German officials that it had not been helpful in fighting terrorism and urged authorities to better formulate their requests.
Following a rash of attacks in southern Germany in late July, several state officials called for websites such as Facebook to be legally required to immediately hand over user data if information relevant to an attack is posted.
They complained that the US-based social network had only supplied answers to about 37 percent of requests by German security authorities over the last three years, Welt am Sonntag newspaper said on Sunday.
Facebook said in a statement that it was committed to working with officials. …
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“We aren’t culpable for ANYTHING!”
Their senior management is hunkered down behind layers of legal barbed wire, trying to deflect all blame.
Facebook is Evil!
They’re right on banning anyone who dares challenge that Islam is a religion of peace within seconds.
Trump is!
Why?
He just is!
The correct response is: “Its Bush’s fault”
If FB is going to carry water for the DNC, they might as well get their story correct.
Facebook didn’t import terrorists into your country, Germany. You did that!
Perfect. That should be their official reply.
You really think Merkel is going to accept that blame?
Easier to blame a US company, therefore the blame lays at the feat of the US.
It’s all the rage now-a-days dontchaknow
But FB aided them once they got there.
That of course does not remove the German government’s culpability.
The Germans want Facebook’s culpability after the act.
As details come out from social media, as they often do, nobody is buying the “psychologically disturbed” and “bullied” memes.
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