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German minister says Facebook should be treated as a media company | Reuters
I agree, Facebook is a media company. Televisions and radios do not, of their own, create material but they are a channel for other sources. This is the exact same thing for Facebook.
Germany's Justice Minister says he believes Facebook Inc. (FB.O) should be treated like a media company rather than a technology platform, suggesting he favors moves to make social media groups criminally liable for failing to remove hate speech.
Under a program that runs until March, German authorities are monitoring how many racist posts reported by Facebook users are deleted within 24 hours. Justice Minister Heiko Maas has pledged to take legislative measures if the results are still unsatisfactory by then.
Maas has said the European Union needs to decide whether platform companies should be treated like radio or television stations, which can be held accountable for the content they publish.
"In my view they should be treated as media even if they do not correspond to the media concept of television or radio," he said following a meeting of state justice ministers in Berlin.
I agree, Facebook is a media company. Televisions and radios do not, of their own, create material but they are a channel for other sources. This is the exact same thing for Facebook.