Brickbat: The Cost of Doing Business

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Facebook will open a second office and hire 500 more contractors to help it comply with a new German hate speech law requiring social media to remove illegal content within 24 hours. By the end of the year, Facebook will have 1,200 people in Germany reviewing the content of posts.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

You know who else built an army to enforce a certain ideal?

[Adans smith]

Oliver Queen from planet X?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Spoiler alert. And, really, Overgirl was the army.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben?

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

Wait, wait... He was hired to instill an ideal to an army someone else built.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Actually, he was hired to build up an army someone else had instilled an ideal in.

[Vernon Depner]

KISS?

[creech]

Pope Urban II?

[Radioactive]

there may be a more viable solution...just shut the fucking thing off!

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Germany hasn't created this many broken windows for people to fix since 1938.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Kristallnacht reference; poignant, yet just offensive enough Well done.

[DJF]

Germany already has hired the Amadeu Antonio Foundation which was created by the STASIi agent Anetta Kahane to police Facebook. So what happened, did they fail? Its sad when you can't count on East German secret police to keep your political opponents silent.

[Jerryskids]

I heard a discussion on NPR yesterday on combatting fake news on Facebook and social media in general - how about you don't get your news from Facebook?

[DJF]

Where should I get my fake news? NPR.

[Longtobefree]

An excellent choice, but it would only encourage them.

[Old Mexican's Speedos]

They do present fake news of a very high quality, though.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Well above average.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

I was a regular listener for many years, but can't take the quarterly fund raising, no matter how smooth their agenda driven propaganda may be.

[Radioactive]

Huffpo

[PaulTheBeav]

And people wonder why we can't afford things.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Yes, but now there are 500 people who can afford things they couldn't before.

[Longtobefree]

Maybe the book of faces should just shut down German IP addresses, and display a message screen that it will return after the elections, if the proper politicians are elected?
No harm there.

[Bubba Jones]

Does this only apply to things posted by self identified Germans?

[Quo Usque Tandem]

I have a former exchange student daughter over there; I can post something testy on her Facebook page and see what happens and report back.

[Radioactive]

you'll never see her again...unless that's the plan, then well done!

[Eidde]

You know who else identified as German despite being born abroad?

[Radioactive]

Rudolf the red nosed hessian?

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

The Hoff?

[Vernon Depner]

Putin?