Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports straight to the feds

Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports straight to the feds


While a French online hate speech law has just been derailed by the country’s top constitutional authority on freedom of expression grounds, Germany is beefing up hate speech rules — passing a provision that will require platforms to send suspected criminal content directly to the Federal police at the point it’s reported by a user. […]


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June 20, 2020 at 12:03AM

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