Facebook, YouTube, and other social media firms will be fined up to €50 million (£43.9 million) by Germany if they fail to remove hate speech and other criminal content within 24 hours, BBC News reports.
The new legislation, which applies to platforms with more than 2 million users, will come into effect in October after German MPs voted in favour of the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) law.
"Our experience has shown that unfortunately, social media companies do not improve their procedures without political pressure," said Justice Minister Heiko Mass, who oversaw the legislation, according to BBC News.
The law comes after several high-profile incidents of fake news and terrorist content spread on Facebook and YouTube in Germany.
Seems reasonable.
And German needs to be very vigilant in order to keep the same thing that happened here, with the election of Donald Trump, from happening there.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/putin-trump-bromance-held-back-by-fake-news-russia/
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Gee, that would mean fines for just about anything that Trump or his GOP minions say!
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Germany has a lot more experience with this. They *have* learned from history and have worked very hard to make sure it doesn't repeat itself.
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ReplyDeleteThey've been traveling rather extensively throughout the US and said that quite frankly they've met many people in their travels that left them unsurprised by who they elected as their leader as they said they were very concerned at how uneducated most Americans seem to be. I told them there are pockets of intelligence and sanity but nonetheless America elected a man who represents the most basic aspects of our "junk culture", basically a Kardashian with political aspirations made it into the highest office in the land.
They and I both expressed little faith that America will be able to pull ourselves out of this basement of depravity and they said that most European countries would be happy to take our "smart people".
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