[yesthatjallen]

The French Parliament has moved toward a new law that would give internet companies like Facebook and Google just 24 hours to remove hateful speech from their sites or face fines of $1.4 million per violation.

What's to stop any agent provocateur (group or individual) from posting extreme content on any platform to drive a company out of business with crippling fines?

[bagster]

Get it? Frog in a pot? France? Frog????

Never mind.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What is to stop a site from ignoring the fines if the servers are not physically located in France or Germany?

[Jim Noble]

What's to stop any agent provocateur (group or individual) from posting extreme content on any platform to drive a company out of business with crippling fines?

What's to stop them from claiming your perfectly rational views are "hateful"?

[deadrock]

And Sharia marches on.

[Paladin2]

It’s going to be a brave new world.

[Mark17]

Bump

[morphing libertarian]

blmrk

[SubVet72]

I was put into FB jail for 30 days on July 4th for posting the following comment:

“My grandparents immigrated legally in the early 20th century. I have neither sympathy nor respect for those who enter this nation illegally. They are criminal illegal aliens.”

According to Facist Book this is considered hate speech!

FYI: FB as a private company is not obligated to honor the First Amendment.

[mewzilla]

Articles 11 and 13 should have made it clear that it’s the entire EU, not just France....

[Billthedrill]

In Germany, a man was arrested for having a ringtone with the voice of Hitler.

That would tend to get people's attention. I'd prefer that as a voicemail greeting to spammers, myself.

It amazes me that every time this comes up somebody asks the logical question "What is hate speech, anyway?" and it never gets answered. Yet the enthusiasm for banning it marches on in lockstep toward a new progressive future where it doesn't have to be answered because asking it is, you guessed it, hate speech.

[vigilence]

If one cannot universally define “hate speech” then there is no such thing. It is merely free speech, guaranteed in America by the First Amendment. The accelerating factor in this issue is the open borders proponents who are trying to placate extremists new to their country at the expense of their own traditions and native citizen’s historical rights.

[Uncle Miltie]

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.

[DiogenesLamp]

France has turned into one of the worldwide threats to free speech

France is a "private" company. It can do what it wants, and force all the other "private" companies to do what it wants too.

Ping to Semimojo.

[trebb]

Macron and his government are attempting to unilaterally scrub the internet of hateful thoughts.

So - how much of Twitter does Macon own? Ironic that they protect the real haters and then harass those who point out how hateful the haters are because to do so is "hate speech"...