Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b...
by pnako on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:21PM
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The last such law in France was just cancelled for being unconstitutional.
And in practice they are impossible to enforce for a platform like Facebook, since in the end it's a judge who has to decide what is, and what is not hate speech.
In practice, enforcement is selective and the sentences are never formally enforced since it would create de-facto political prisoners, which gives a bad image to a democratic country.
And in practice they are impossible to enforce for a platform like Facebook, since in the end it's a judge who has to decide what is, and what is not hate speech.
In practice, enforcement is selective and the sentences are never formally enforced since it would create de-facto political prisoners, which gives a bad image to a democratic country.
So I'm not sure they're a good example.