Posted on 09/28/2016 12:39:24 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Facebook revealed that within the last month it deleted 100,000 posts by German users for containing “hate”, but Justice Minister Heiko Maas has blasted the figure as too low.
At a conference in Berlin, Maas said that to be accountable, social networks must publish the number of posts contested by users. The Justice Minister’s remarks implied that complainants on social media are valid judges of what constitutes criminal speech, something usually only determined by a court.
The number of deleted posts “with hate comments” was revealed this week by Facebook’s European policy director, Richard Allan. Maas criticised Facebook’s decision not to specify the number of comments users contested in the period and said that its response to complaints should be consistent across the board.
“We should consider whether to make social networks commit to disclose how many complaints for illegal hate comments they got and how they handled them,” the Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician argued.
Maas said that “too little” punishable content on the internet is being deleted and that posts are deleted too slowly.
Asserting that the biggest problem is that complaints from users are not taken seriously, he said: “Of the criminal content reported by users, Twitter deleted just one per cent, YouTube only ten, and Facebook 46 per cent. This is too little.”
In Germany’s fight against “hate speech” on the internet, a task force of several Internet companies including Facebook agreed to delete posts which are punishable under German law within 24 hours.
Jugenschutz.net, an organisation whose stated aim is to make the internet safer for children, assessed Facebook and Youtube’s performance in deleting the criminal content they reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
YouTube removed 96 per cent of posts flagged by the organisation and 84 per cent of Facebook posts. “With both websites, half were deleted within 24 hours. This is much faster than in the spring,” Maas said.
Since Angela Merkel’s decision to allow more than 1.6 million migrants into Germany, the government has taken an incredibly hard line on free speech on the internet. Police have conducted raids on the homes of people suspected to have made posts critical of migrant...
IS THIS WHO YOU WANT TO CONTROL YOUR INTERNET??! THEY ARE ALREADY CENSORING FACEBOOK, YOU TUBE AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA...They very well could be doing same to US YouTube and Facebook if we cede control.
SUPPORT PROTECTING INTERNET FREEDOM ACT HR5418 AND CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN TODAY. ASK THEM TO CO-SPONSOR THE BILL AND GET A VOTE ON IT!
Germany has gone Nazi again and they don’t even know it! Everyone has been brainwashed into right vs left wing, when in reality, its big government vs freedom.
You censor the right of people to speak out and they will turn to other means to be heard. Just sayin’...
How about deleting Facebook?
Censorship is a Hate Crime
Don’t dare insult muslims on Facebook.
Eh the issue is not whether a person has Facebook or not...
the issue is that the German Government has made speech related to not liking the migrant refugee invasion illegal...
Yes, that is true, but in Germany it is prosecuted...
Take away my voice and I will burn their corpses in the street. What other option would I have?
You censor the right of people to speak out and they will turn to other means to be heard. Just sayin’...
Where is censorship a hate crime?
Take away my voice and I will burn their corpses in the street. What other option would I have?
OK, you and a few others perhaps...maybe a better move would be to fight here for free speech First Amendment rights!
Better call your congresscritter and tell them to co-sponsor HR5418, THE PROTECTING OF INTERNET FREEDOM ACT or you just may lose your voice!
THESE CONGRESSCRITTERS ARE ALL UP FOR RE-ELECTION, AND MAY BE MORE INCLINED TO LISTEN TO WE THE PEOPLE!!!
You aren’t wrong... but there are some that won’t just sit idly by.
Agree. Delete your Facebook account.
All you need is hate.
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