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Re:German MPs vote for new law to fine social media companie... by quakenul on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:44AM (#14670061)
Let's be clear here: FB has been around for more than a decade. Germanys stance on hate speech has been clear all this while. Them now moving in to act on it in the digital domain is hardly a surprise.

Social Media giants ignoring local laws, while being occupied with taking over the world truly makes for a great Cinderella story -- but maybe part of growing is also growing up and preparing the business to comply with local laws, instead of waving the "this is so unreasonable" card when you didn't do so for a decade and then eventually get fined for it.

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Re:German MPs vote for new law to fine social media companie... by thinkloop on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:53AM (#14670112)
Local laws don't say that hate speech is allowed as long as it's within 24hrs. It's simply not allowed. But in an attempt to be reasonable for a distributed platform like FB, they are giving 24hrs - is 24hrs reasonable? That's a valid question.
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