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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by latenightcoding on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:26PM (#11808785)
Old news, Facebook has been working very closely with the German Government to protect poor little Merkel from being criticized.
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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by pillowkusis on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @02:38PM (#11808913)
Do you have evidence of this? I would imagine censoring mainstream dissident speech would be quite a controversy...
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Re:Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within ... by Siwi on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:00PM (#11819846)
http://www.dw.com/en/mark-zuckerbergs-offensive-on-hate-spee...

http://www.dw.com/en/berlin-police-raid-homes-in-crackdown-o...

And one on a "mainstream dissident" that's quite controversial: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/europe/germany-erdogan-joke-pr...

Also, while we're on the topic of "slippery slope": http://www.politico.eu/article/twitter-suspends-darthputinkg...

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