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Re: Aufstand der Anständigen (none / 0)

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 Migeru (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: