Posted on 06/30/2017 8:56:41 AM PDT by Stopthethreat
The measure approved is designed to enforce the country's existing limits on speech, including the long-standing ban on Holocaust denial. Among other things, it would fine social networking sites up to 50 million euros ($56 million) if they persistently fail to remove illegal content within a week, including defamatory "fake news."
"Freedom of speech ends where the criminal law begins," said Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who was the driving force behind the bill.
Maas said official figures showed the number of hate crimes in Germany increased by over 300 percent in the last two years.
Social media platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have become a battleground for angry debates about Germany's recent influx of more than 1 million refugees, with authorities struggling to keep up with the flood of criminal complaints.
Maas claimed that 14 months of discussion with major social media companies had made no significant progress. Last week, lawmakers from his Social Democratic Party and Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Union bloc agreed a number of amendments to give companies more time to check whether posts that are flagged to them are illegal, delegate the vetting process to a third party and ensure that users whose comments are removed can appeal the decision.
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Totalitarians all.
“Freedom of speech ends where the criminal law begins,” said Justice Minister Heiko Maas,”
Sieg Hiel!
Worth repeating....inside every german beats the heart of a pure Nazi....
Kind of reminds me of the Nuremburg laws. As long as there’s a law, dontcha know.
No more negative posts about Trump?
“Freedom of speech ends where we say it does,” said Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
“”Freedom of speech ends where the criminal law begins,” said Justice Minister Heiko Maas”
Couldn’t agree more. That is where free speech ends you damned Nazi.
You know, I haven’t had a shot of Drambuie in a few years.
When some muzzies blow up the Germany parliament building or vaporize Berlin with a thermonuclear weapon, I’m going to pour a shot, and toast to the health of Germany’s political correctness and multiculturalism.
In order to protect from totalitarianism veee have to enact totalitarianism.
stupid idiots
Left wing censorship is everywhere.
Not that they'd collect, of course. Just asking what the law say.
“Kind of reminds me of the Nuremburg laws.”
Yeah, Sharia laws, too.
Too bad we didn’t convict and hang more Nazi Germans at the Nuremberg Trials. Then their prodigy wouldn’t be around today to take Germany into the Fourth Reich.
Obviously this is aimed at Germans who might think they have a right to complain about the millions of savages that murkul has brought in to replace them.
“including defamatory “fake news.”
It sucks to be German right now.
When will they throw off this yoke? And, what will emerge when they do?
Remember, Germans perfected killing on an industrial scale.
Von der Maas bis an den Belt.
Goebbels would be proud of the “new” Germany.
Whelp, that’s no more telling the truth about Islam, the truth about the homosexual death-style, or proclaiming the Gospel in Germany on the internet.
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