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RE: How Social Media "Stifles" Free Speech (Facebook)
In Germany a new law has been proposed and is currently in checking which commits private companies to delete "hate speech" during 24 hours if they don't want to be sued. Officially it's against "fake news" but as it doesn't have a concrete definition of "hate speech" it can be used for censorship.
Hopefully the law will be disregarded by the constitutional court but regardless of the decision I'll try to shift my social media activities to steemit or other free social media platforms.
It should actually be clear what freedom of speech is and means. How far we are away from our own definitions is scary. It actually turns out to be the total opposite. Georg Orwell is greeting...
They're becoming communist. It's so sad to see that telling the true can become a crime in Germany and other places in Europe.
Thank you....but then again you are putting that in "a persons hand". Free speech is free speech. As you say...time will tell.
With our current democratic system we weren't able to influence the development till now. The decision was properly hidden as the attractive topic "marriage for all" had been all over the news.
The current development in Germany shows that the better part of our population turns away from individualism and prefer an allmighty state which is a terrifying development in my point of view.
and why you did downvote me ?
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Artikel 5 Grundgesetz
Eigentlich wird Nummer 1 schon mit Nummer 2 ausgehebelt, was die Freiheit anbelangt :-)