Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
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Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
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Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
#3I love my “Vaterland” :) but I’m not sure if that’ll work. We are to small and Facebook to large and smart for regulation
Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
#4I love my “Vaterland” :) but I’m not sure if that’ll work. We are to small and Facebook to large and smart for regulation
Facebook just removed 584 million fake accounts. Isn't that like 1/3rd of their user base?
Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
#5I love my “Vaterland” :) but I’m not sure if that’ll work. We are to small and Facebook to large and smart for regulation
Facebook will adapt to as many global regulatory approaches as it has to, and there will be dozens of them at a minimum that will be major markets and require compliance. The world is going to get very, very messy when it comes to complying with all the various approaches nations will implement (to speech broadly, politics, commerce, privacy, you name it). The compliance will act as a tax on its fat margins, basically.
It will become nearly impossible to form a new global social network as these rules come into being. No other entities will be capable of dealing with it, you'll have to have vast resources to do it. It won't be about paid vs ad supported approaches, that doesn't matter for that purpose: the localized compliance will go far beyond privacy (that is merely one issue on a long list of compliance requirements that will exist in the future, it'll be as complex and varied as cultures and government systems are).
Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
#6I love my “Vaterland” :) but I’m not sure if that’ll work. We are to small and Facebook to large and smart for regulation
Facebook will adapt to as many global regulatory approaches as it has to, and there will be dozens of them at a minimum that will be major markets and require compliance. The world is going to get very, very messy when it comes to complying with all the various approaches nations will implement (to speech broadly, politics, commerce, privacy, you name it). The compliance will act as a tax on its fat margins, basicall…
The solution is to have local networks, then you care only about the local laws. Like on reddit each subreddit has it's rules, you have to respect the local rules , but you can participate in any subreddit
Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
#7I love my “Vaterland” :) but I’m not sure if that’ll work. We are to small and Facebook to large and smart for regulation
Facebook just removed 584 million fake accounts. Isn't that like 1/3rd of their user base?
Comparing those two numbers (removed fake account, and FB userbase) does not give you reasonable insights.
FB ususally reports DAU/MAU (daily active users, weekly active users). That means, if you remove 500 million of not active users (not using facebook last month), these numbers are not affected. I don't think this would explain the majority of 500M number.
Most of the 584 million removed fake accounts were most likely created in the same period (and most of them were removed quickly after registration -- as said in the FB report). So they didn't decimate their user base, but additional 500M accounts that were deleted (so they shouldn't affect the user growth). This assumes vast majority of active fake accounts will be blocked.
Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
#8"Germany, home to a tough new online hate speech law", anybody have the definition of hate speech according to this law? This article has a lot of information but a cogent definition of hate speech is not given.
Re: Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
#9I find it interesting that platforms are liable for hosting hate speech, but individual users are not liable for creating it.
It's also interesting that Human Rights Watch has come out against the German law: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/14/germany-flawed-social-me...
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#10"Germany, home to a tough new online hate speech law", anybody have the definition of hate speech according to this law? This article has a lot of information but a cogent definition of hate speech is not given.
This will definitely be abused.