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Mastodon.social is also bound by German law, and ¼ of their trending timeline is people dunking on Israel in ways that are classified as anti-Semitism under the IHRA definition (i.e. calling it racist/an apartheid state). They don’t seem to be in any hurry to change this.
And you can call Israel a racist apartheid state on feddit.org. It's explicitly called an apartheid state in the sidebar of !nahost@feddit.org for example...
Either a pair of brass or the law does not apply as feddit.org shills.
Note that they even conceded that original comment might not violate the law but they support mod censorship anyway!
Does Germany not have something like section 230 in the US?
It seems very obvious to me that the German law is being broken by the person that comments, not the hosting service that allows people to comment. This is more like the MAGA-type regime where they want to force social media companies to police other people’s speech for them. But, of course, just because that’s what makes sense to me does not mean that’s how it plays out legally.
I don't have enough knowledge to comment on how german law regulates online speech
I am aware that most countries don't have as much "free" speech protections as US.
With that being said, the cases where people for prosecuted for anti semetism that i reviewed were in fact spouting nasty shite outload under their own names. It was pretty clearly hate speech.
I wonder if somebody can produce an example of something milder where a Germany prosecuted for it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/germany-online-hate-speech-prosecution-60-minutes/
You can be prosecuted for incredibly silly things in Germany. Someone called a politician a dick online and got raided for it. To me it sounds like an incredibly stupid law.
They say “social media companies” (which includes feddit.org? Maybe?) can be prosecuted if they don’t crack down on “hate speech,” although in practice they have been doing it almost entirely to the actual users. They have gone after Twitter. It’s not obvious to me that feddit.org could get prosecuted in reality, but it’s not obvious to me that they could not, and it’s not my balls in the vice at the end of the day.
On the other hand, we are quickly reaching a point in the world where it’s either fight for justice, or we’re all going to work in the mines and face firing squads if we disagree. Germany of all places should have some familiarity with the concept “fuck what is lawful, this is wrong, I want to be on the right side of history even if I might get sent to the principal’s office.” No consequence the feddit admins would be facing would be life-changing in any reality, and there are a lot of other people whose consequences definitely are.