Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es...
by LeanderK on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:47AM
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i also thought about that. But a society sets the rules businesses operate in, that ranges from environmental laws to other regulations. I think its perfectly valid to also set anti-censorship rules if the society think its valid.
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Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es...
by refurb on Friday September 09, 2016 @10:15AM
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Freedom of speech includes the freedom to not say something. It would require a constitutional amendment for the gov't to come in and start demanding things from Facebook.
Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es...
by LeanderK on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @07:03AM
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well, i don't know if thats the case in good ol'merica.
But i don't think there are major obstacles to introduce such law in germany/europe. We already have media-laws and special press-laws (which regulate how stories must be published, for example we have a "journalistic duty of care" which amongst other things mandates that unconfirmed statements must be marked as such. The law follows the codex of the German Press Council).