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Facebook’s voluntary self-control
Hate speech, Enthauptungsvideos, Gewaltaufrufe: In Facebook you can find everything, what is against German law. The network praised improvement. But the group has at all interested?
Great casserole this Friday in the University of Potsdam. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is there. During his Berlin visit, he is speaking at a “Townhall Q&A”Meeting with students. What the young people are interested: How is the network in the future with Hasskommentaren? It will delete entries that violate German laws, because they volksverhetzend, inhuman or violent? “I think, not that we have a sufficiently good Job of it,” says Zuckerberg, “for hate speech, there is no place on Facebook and in our Community.”
The day before, still has the Multimilliardär from California in Kanzleramtschef Peter Altmeyer (CDU) dropped by. The Federal government will the US Technologieriesen just look at your fingers, said the Minister afterwards. Only five months ago, since German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Facebook boss in New York in the margins of a UN event in prayer, took. Already there promised to Zuckerberg: “I think we need to work on it.”
Facebook praised for improvement
Townhall Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg (Berlin, 26.02.2016)
Critics accuse the world’s largest Internet-network (1.6 billion users) is already longer Hasskommentare on its website, is not sufficient to delete. After a Meeting with Bundesjustizminister Heiko Maas (SPD) in the autumn promised the group improvement. At the beginning of this year, announced Facebook then with so-called Löschteams from Germany against Hasskommentare to proceed. The Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato received the order, Facebook-review content, and illegal entries to remove. Also gave Facebook a partnership with the voluntary self-control Multimedia service providers (FSM) is known. The Association takes care of the protection of minors in Online media.
“We want people to feel safe when you Facebook use”, can be read on the Facebook page, “for this reason, we have a set of community standards developed.” Naked bodies are equally undesirable, such as bullying or harassment. “We will remove explicit content, if you for sadistic pleasure or to Worship or Glorify violence to be shared.” Also, delete Facebook “all the Hate”. Not talking about racism or xenophobia. “I have a Enthauptungsvideo ago, it has not been deleted,” wrote a bewildered Facebook users recently in the Service area of the Facebook page. “I can not understand it. What has yet to happen?”
Aid for sedition?
Lawyer Chan-jo Jun
Facebook users are prompted for a rule violation to report. “For us to work worldwide special Teams,” writes Facebook, “to which you reported the content to check the safety of Facebook continue to make sure.” Doubt that this works, but has not only the German Bundesjustizminister. The University Of Würzburg
Medienanwalt Chan-jo Jun, and his Cologne colleague
Christian Solmecke make mobilize against Facebook. In your view, makes Facebook “aid to sedition.”
Together reimbursed by the lawyers in the Hamburg public Prosecutor’s office a criminal complaint against Facebook CEO Zuckerberg and ten of his Top managers. The Facebook-people violated German law, in the known illegal content will remain publicly made, so the lawyers in an interview with the German wave. Previously, you would have group of more than 300 violations of the law are made aware of: racist propaganda, as well as offensive images and Videos. Even when Propagandavideos the Islamist Terrormiliz IS, the beheaded people and geschändete corpses showed, have Facebook a deletion is rejected. Justification: The depiction of violence do not act against the Directives of the acquis communautaire.
Facebook relies on Voluntary self-control
Lawyer Christian Solmecke
“Facebook provides its business interests over German law”, says Christian Solmecke. In Germany applies the fundamental right to freedom of expression is not unlimited, but come quickly to its limits – for example, the offence of sedition. His colleague, Chan-jo Jun is of the opinion that there is Facebook in the dispute “not to legal, but to commercial interests”. The Facebook-turnover in Germany will appreciate the lawyers in your Anzeigeschrift to around 350 million Euro for each of the 28 million German users 3,25 Euro. Against the Facebook operators in Dublin and Menlo Park, they requested a fine in the amount of 150 million euros. Even though their charges against Zuckerberg waves, you want them not as a “Marketing gimmick” misunderstood know. “At the Offizialdelikten, we are dealing with here,” asks Solmecke, “you would have to because the prosecutors do not determine?”
Questions also raises the “Voluntary self-control Multimedia service providers (FSM) in Berlin. In the non-profit Association for the IT-economy is the ” Facebook Ireland Ltd is a member, in addition to Google and other Internet and telecommunications companies. Facebook paid after the FSM details the annual contribution of 32,000 euros. Just published the FSM complaints office of the
Number of reported violations of the law – 5.448 for the year 2015. The FSM has ten employees. “The Directives of Facebook and German law are not the same,” said FSM managing Director Otto Vollmers, compared with the German wave. You advise Facebook. “We are working to German Standards compared Facebook to enforce,” said Otto, “but we do not know whether we can do this.”
Zuckerberg draws the masses (Berlin, 26.02.2016)