While I am not familiar with German law post-Hogan's Heroes, a statute requiring removal of questionable speech and lacking any appeal process would definitely not survive a First Amendment challenge in the U.S..
The availability of easy public expression of uninformed ugliness of all kinds reduces rational public dialogue and creates a craving ever-increasing levels of inflammatory rhetoric. Nonetheless, government regulation of speech is both inherently intrusive and unlikely to be ineffective.
Free speech in the sense of the absence of government regulation is crucially important to any society of which I would want to be a part. However, I am endlessly disheartened by the fact that people often use that speech to cruelly dismiss and attack others in humanity-denying ways. I have no solution, but it makes me really sad.
I was surprised to read that the measure targets the platforms themselves. "Social media outlets would have 24 hours to delete 'obviously criminal content' and a week to decide on more ambiguous cases." I wonder if they have language to define the difference?! Sounds fuzzy. I can't always tell if text messages from my family are friendly or angry.
Having said that, I'm not at all surprised to hear that Twitter royally sucks on curbing abuse.
While I am not familiar with German law post-Hogan's Heroes, a statute requiring removal of questionable speech and lacking any appeal process would definitely not survive a First Amendment challenge in the U.S..
The availability of easy public expression of uninformed ugliness of all kinds reduces rational public dialogue and creates a craving ever-increasing levels of inflammatory rhetoric. Nonetheless, government regulation of speech is both inherently intrusive and unlikely to be ineffective.
You think free speech creates lower quality of dialogue? (Definitely never thought of it that way.)
Free speech in the sense of the absence of government regulation is crucially important to any society of which I would want to be a part. However, I am endlessly disheartened by the fact that people often use that speech to cruelly dismiss and attack others in humanity-denying ways. I have no solution, but it makes me really sad.
Whoa. Free speech taking a hit overseas.
I was surprised to read that the measure targets the platforms themselves. "Social media outlets would have 24 hours to delete 'obviously criminal content' and a week to decide on more ambiguous cases." I wonder if they have language to define the difference?! Sounds fuzzy. I can't always tell if text messages from my family are friendly or angry.
Having said that, I'm not at all surprised to hear that Twitter royally sucks on curbing abuse.