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Adrian Sol
Daily Stormer
January 4, 2018
Sorry, Twitter. It’s time to close up shop in Germany. They don’t want you anymore.
A few months ago, we reported that Germany had enacted new laws specifying steep fines for social media companies if they failed to act as agents of state repression with enough enthusiasm and efficiency.
It seems the goon squads breaking down people’s doors at 4am for posting on Facebook wasn’t doing the trick for the German authorities, who now want something more… drastic.
Cnet:
Social media companies may have been dreading the fireworks marking the start of the new year.
On Jan. 1, Germany began enforcing strict rules that could fine major internet sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube up to 50 million euros ($60 million, £44 million, AU$77 million) if they don’t remove posts containing hate speech within 24 hours of receiving a complaint.
If this law is systematically enforced, then it makes the operation of a social media company impossible in Germany. There are many millions of messages exchanged on social media every day in Germany, and the idea that Twitter or Facebook, let alone a smaller company, could respond to each and every complaint within 24 hours is absurd.
Unless you get half of the German population working in the Twitter censorship department.
Complying with this law would require these companies to either hire veritable armies of paid reviewers (which isn’t financially viable) or simply remove all posts flagged by anyone instantly without checking them. This latter solution would make their service unusable, as all users would have the power to shut down the speech of every other user. It would obviously also allow Nazis to censor communists, which would be hilarious.
In other words, one of two things is very likely to happen:
- Social media companies stop offering service in Germany, or do so in a very limited fashion.
- The German government doesn’t actually enforce this law, for fear of the social backlash over possibility #1.
But considering the hubris involved in enacting this law in the first place, I think #1 is more likely to happen.
A third, somewhat amusing possibility is to remove users’ ability to flag posts in Germany, and instead give the German government sole access to that function. Then simply remove all posts flagged by the state’s thought-control department. That would completely outsource the censorship to the Government, and make them bear the cost of this insane policy. But it appears the law is worded in such a way as to prevent this from being done:
The new hate speech law, which passed in June, actually went into effect in October but companies had until Jan. 1 to prepare for it. The law requires companies to maintain an “effective and transparent procedure for dealing with complaints” that users can access readily at anytime. Upon receiving a complaint, social media companies must remove or block “obviously illegal content” within 24 hours, though they have up to a week when dealing with “complex cases.”
In other words, the ability to flag posts and lodge complaints must be made available to all users, and all of these complaints must be processed within 24 hours.
If enforced, this law almost certainly means the end of social media as we know it in Germany.
I wonder how normies addicted to Facebook will react to having their fix taken away from them cold-turkey?
Taking away a junkie’s drugs usually doesn’t produce a nice reaction.
Then, patriots could simply start a party whose platform is to bring back Facebook and Twitter. The second plank of their program would be to kick out all the Moslems, return the Jews to Israel and throw faggots off rooftops, but that’ll be an easy pill to swallow for normies if it means getting their cat videos and social validation back.
