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Re: Aufstand der Anständigen (4.00 / 3)

Merkel broke her loooong silence. Sigmar Gabriel was there two days earlier. With the following result:

German party receives far-right threats after refugee visit - Yahoo News

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) were forced to evacuate their headquarters on Tuesday after receiving a bomb threat and flood of racist emails and phone calls the party said were linked to leader Sigmar Gabriel's visit to the eastern town of Heidenau.
...Gabriel, who is also vice chancellor and economy minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, traveled to the town on Monday and denounced the "mob" behind the violence.
...The center-left SPD, which shares power with Merkel's conservatives, said that in the 24 hours after Gabriel's visit it had received 300 emails with "misanthropic" content and about 150 calls in which its employees were insulted and threatened.

I don't think the SPD leadership will deny that on-line violent racism reached a markedly new quality and that it is linked with a specific new wave of off-line violent racism.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Aug 26th, 2015 at 11:31:40 AM EST
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If you say so.

(Of course, you don't need "online"at all for this reaction. Just a tv set and then a telephone.)

by IM on Thu Aug 27th, 2015 at 05:24:23 AM EST
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Well, justice minister Heiko Maas (SPD) is definitely past denial:

Facebook must ban abusive content, says German Justice Minister Maas | News | DW.COM | 27.08.2015

Heiko Maas wants Facebook to better enforce its community standards to rein in abusive users. Given the recent rise in anti-migrant and xenophobic posts, he has called for a meeting with Facebook's European managers.
...In the letter, which he sent to Facebook's European head office in Dublin as well as to its German subsidiary, he says the social media site's community standards needed to be more efficient and transparent.
In the wake of the recent openly xenophobic and hateful attacks on and protests at refugee camps in Germany, Maas said that the Justice Ministry had received many complaints about abusive content not being banned on Facebook.
Often, users get a message saying that the posts they reported did not violate Facebook's community standards without giving any further explanation "even in very obvious cases," according to Maas.
He says this standard response had become a "farce" and that users were struggling to understand why Facebook is quick to ban nudity, for example, referring to its community standards, but often fails to ban xenophobic and racist posts.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 27th, 2015 at 10:41:23 AM EST
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I almost linked that but rightly suspected you would complain anyway.

by IM on Thu Aug 27th, 2015 at 11:04:17 AM EST
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"rightly"?

I don't see DoDo complaining.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2015 at 11:22:45 AM EST
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Well I was complaining about IM's denial, even after his party leadership caught on.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 27th, 2015 at 11:38:09 AM EST
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Sure, it's an online problem.

by IM on Thu Aug 27th, 2015 at 11:59:24 AM EST
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Re: Aufstand der Anständigen (4.00 / 3)

Huh...

DoDo: