With Huge Fines, German Law Pushes Social Networks To Delete Abusive Posts
Like the United States, Germany is grappling with fake news and hate speech and what to do about it. For decades, it has banned incitement, defamation, and phrases and symbols from the Nazi era.
But the lines have been a lot murkier when the offenses in question are on the Internet.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition tried to address the discrepancy this year with a controversial "Network Enforcement Law," which the German parliament passed on June 30, and which quietly went into effect on Oct. 1.
Under the measure — touted by many as the toughest law of its kind in the Western world — social media companies that have at least 2 million users in Germany, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, can be fined as much as 50 million euros ($58.3 million) if they fail to delete comments and posts that are deemed to violate German law. In clear-cut cases, the time that the platforms have to remove the offending material can be as little as 24 hours. - Read More
With Huge Fines, German Law Pushes Social Networks To Delete Abusive Posts
posted by Fakhria @ 10/31/2017
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