German MPs vote for new law to fine social media companies over illegal content

Re:German MPs vote for new law to fine social media companie... by tmalsburg2 on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:33AM (#14669993)

While I agree that it's bad to prevent people from speaking poorly about a king, that's not representative of the kinds of things that the German law is addressing. As such this is not a very strong example, IMO.

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Re:German MPs vote for new law to fine social media companie... by cr1895 on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:49AM (#14670085)

You asked for examples in which free speech was too limited and resulted in a poor outcome for society. You asked that in response to:

"We need more freedom of speech, not less. The US is miles ahead of us in this respect. Here in Europe, we're missing that fundamental value of "I disagree with what you say, but I will fight for your right to say it". Instead, it's more like "I disagree with what you say so I'm going to try to get you arrested for it"."

Therefore my example is germane and quite a clear example given your question.

Here are more examples (again Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Spain):

http://www.euronews.com/2016/04/15/beyond-a-joke-7-countries...

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