CyclopsRock
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Why should the government solve Facebook's problems? The government wants to see the hate speech go away, since it is against the law. Facebook is allowing hate speech to spread. Then Facebook needs to come up with a solution for that.
I rather not the German taxpayer would be on the hook for solving an issue Facebook has created.
The implication of Facebook removing a post is not that it has broken the law. It is that Facebook thinks allowing it up will put them in danger of breaking the law. Only a judge can make the ruling if it was actually illegal. But this way, Facebook has incentive to actually remove things without everything being forwarded to the courts who can not be expected to handle every comment placed on there.
Do you genuinely believe that Facebook has created the problem of hate speech and fake news?
I don't think it is Facebook's problem. You're making it Facebook's problem by saying that they're responsible for everything that's posted on their site, despite them having no editorial control over it. It's also easy to say that the state makes the laws, people break the laws, and the state has a responsibility to apply the law to those people. But the reality is that - if people are actually interested in halting hate speech and overtly fake news - that there has to be some compromise in the middle. Facebook have to work with governments to try and remove this content as quickly as possible but it must be the government's that actually define how this decision is made. The people of Germany didn't vote for Mark Zuckerberg, they voted for the legislators - it's their responsibility to decide what gets removed and what doesn't in a way that Facebook can actually implement (ie don't say "fake news and hate speech, dummy", but rather some actually specific guidelines that Facebook can follow). And if a person puts up a post saying "Niggers ruin everything, let's all burn them", it's that person that's broken the law, not Facebook. This law isn't making it Facebook that's broken the law. It's still that person. What this law is doing is making it illegal for Facebook not to remove it. That's a separate crime to the actual hate speech - so when you say "It is that Facebook thinks allowing it up will put them in danger of breaking the law" it's not true.
The idea of the German people having to pony up to enforce the laws that its government decides isn't a crazy one. It's how all the other laws work.