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Does anyone have details on what this means? From the thread in German, is seems it is an instance of German censorship of speech vs Internet, but I am not a Ge

Does anyone have details on what this means? From the thread in German, is seems it is an instance of German censorship of speech vs Internet, but I am not a German speaker so I may get the translations wrong.

noirscape 4y ago
Basically, Germany passed some pretty wide internet legislation called NetzDG[0] in 2019. Social media with more than 2 million users are required to respond within 24 hours to remove "clearly illegal" content or else they become liable (alongside reporting every 6 months how they're being complaint). The law only targets social media, news sites where you only have a small number of contributors but a potentially massive comment section aren't considered social media. At least pre-Musk takeover, Twitter was compliant with this law only in the most literal sense - they would send a warning email to the user if a complaint was filed (even if nothing was done with it) and if they deemed it to be clearly illegal, they'd remove the content only in Germany with a warning message explicitly stating this content was only withheld in Germany[1]. I'm going to assume Musk fired the guy responsible for processing the complaints and nobody knows how to process them anymore. Seems about par for the course for Twitter. That or Musk himself decreed that they're just not going to comply anymore[2]. You can decide on that one, but the outcome is the same: the complaints aren't being processed so legal proceedings have been started. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act [1]: A modified version of this message (just with more countries added) would later be used to indicate the legally enforced blocking of Russia Today within the EU. [2]: Which would be extremely ironic considering his commitment to following the law when it comes to restricting speech if that were the case.

noirscape 4y ago

Basically, Germany passed some pretty wide internet legislation called NetzDG[0] in 2019. Social media with more than 2 million users are required to respond within 24 hours to remove "clearly illegal" content or else they become liable (alongside reporting every 6 months how they're being complaint). The law only targets social media, news sites where you only have a small number of contributors but a potentially massive comment section aren't considered social media. At least pre-Musk takeover, Twitter was compliant with this law only in the most literal sense - they would send a warning email to the user if a complaint was filed (even if nothing was done with it) and if they deemed it to be clearly illegal, they'd remove the content only in Germany with a warning message explicitly stating this content was only withheld in Germany[1]. I'm going to assume Musk fired the guy responsible for processing the complaints and nobody knows how to process them anymore. Seems about par for the course for Twitter. That or Musk himself decreed that they're just not going to comply anymore[2]. You can decide on that one, but the outcome is the same: the complaints aren't being processed so legal proceedings have been started. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act [1]: A modified version of this message (just with more countries added) would later be used to indicate the legally enforced blocking of Russia Today within the EU. [2]: Which would be extremely ironic considering his commitment to following the law when it comes to restricting speech if that were the case.