Facebook Forced to Undo Ban On Conservative by Court Injunction
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🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Facebook recently suspended a user for calling Germans "stupid" and blamed left-wing media. They claimed this was in fact a violation of their hate speech policies, and yes directly attacking national origin is a violation. But a court recently filed an injunction saying that Facebook must unban the user and that they cannot delete his comment if he decides to post it again.
What is most alarming here is that Facebook has determined that called Germans "stupid" is a bannable offence.
What is next? Well, Facebook says it dreams of a future where hate speech is policed by artificial intelligence.
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| 0:00.0 | It seems like almost every day we hear something about censorship, violations of free speech and free expression, |
| 0:08.5 | and these are our rights that most of us in the West, we like these things, we like being able to say whatever we want. |
| 0:15.2 | And there's just news day after day about how this is being violated. |
| 0:18.6 | And that's why today's story is a bit strange because it's almost the opposite. |
| 0:24.2 | A German court recently passed an injunction on Facebook saying you cannot block an offensive comment |
| 0:31.7 | and that they have to reinstate a user that they gave a suspension to a 30-day suspension |
| 0:37.2 | because they said, well, it was protected speech. |
| 0:40.8 | And what's particularly strange about this is that for one, Germany passed a fairly restrictive |
| 0:46.9 | hate speech law just a few months ago and the person that won the injunction is seemingly conservative. |
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| 1:32.1 | From ZDNet, court tells Facebook stop deleting offensive comment. |
| 1:37.6 | Facebook's move to block user and cut a comment from that account has been challenged by a German court. |
| 1:43.3 | A Berlin court has ordered Facebook not to block a user and not to delete a comment made by that user, |
| 1:48.9 | even though it breached the social network's community standards. |
| 1:52.2 | The order appears to be the first such injunction in Germany, |
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