We Should Be More Like Germany...

[seer]

Or why the left is completely irrational...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-inf...123755219.html

AfD politician 'censored' under new German hate speech law for anti-Muslim tweet

Beatrix von Storch, a leading figure in the Alternative for Germany party, is one of the first hit by new hate speech laws on social media. Critics say the legislation opens the way for censorship by internet companies.

http://www.dw.com/en/afd-politician-...eet/a-41992679

[Sparko]

that hate speech thing is ridiculous. How will they handle people outside of Germany? If I say something they would consider hate speech and it appears on the wall of a German friend who then shares it with his friends who think it is hate speech, then what?

[demi-conservative]

Critics say the legislation opens the way for censorship by internet companies.

What took them so long??

The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that "we need to do some work" on curtailing anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. "Are you working on this?" Merkel asked in English, to which Zuckerberg replied in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/27/ange...ant-posts.html

Slowpokes!!!

[seer]

Yet I think US leftists would seriously like this type of control here.