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German minister says Facebook should be treated as a media company

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German minister says Facebook should be treated as a media company | Reuters

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.
 
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.

Nope. It is more like a market place for ideas and information. The German minister only wants to prevent free flow of information and opinions. That is a systemic thing in that country and in Europe to a larger extent, than the saying would lead one to believe.
 
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.

It is a terrible idea, it is a technology platform for social media sharing, and clearly this whole idea is a designed way to subject Facebook to "hate speech" criminal law.

And I find it ironic, historically speaking, that we have yet again Germany calling for speech control.
 
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.

Why should any government seek to control what is said by folks in other nations? Who, exactly, gets to decide what is "hate speech"? When the government gets to control what "the media" can say (report?) then we are on the road to ruin.
 
Why should any government seek to control what is said by folks in other nations? Who, exactly, gets to decide what is "hate speech"? When the government gets to control what "the media" can say (report?) then we are on the road to ruin.

Well, a government can certainly ban that media from its borders.
 
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