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Showing posts only to certain people (the poster's friends) has been a core feature from the beginning. Pages currently have the option to restrict posts geogra

Showing posts only to certain people (the poster's friends) has been a core feature from the beginning. Pages currently have the option to restrict posts geographically (although I'm unsure what that setting does exactly). I'm sure Facebook has already solved many harder engineering challenges than this. I know that Twitter already has geographical blocks in place based on content and they do have similar conversation, sharing, and like features. In the law, costs of complying were estimated to be 28 Mio. € per year (for all social networks combined). I don't know how accurate this is but probably not orders of magnitude off.

mirimir 9y ago
That's a good point. And maybe doing this for the German market would be feasible. But folding is still a bad precedent, in my opinion. I can imagine some amusing outcomes. Sure, Germany can censor "hate speech", however it wants to define that. But the "hate speech" will still be there. Germans just won't see it, unless they lie about their location and hit Facebook via VPNs or Tor. So someone could spread malicious rumors about you, and you might not even know it.