Facebook, Twitter, Google Collude With German Government.

To Censor Discussion On Immigration

[tangor]

The two largest social networks, Facebook and Twitter, and the world’s largest search engine, Google, have teamed up with German law enforcement to delete “hate speech” within 24 hours in what is being seen as a last-ditch effort to silence public dissent about a gigantic wave of Syrian immigration.

The partnership to crack down on what Germany deems illegal speech comes after German law enforcement’s reported concerns about “racist abuse” posted to social media after the country’s huge and extremely controversial import of over a million Syrian refugees.

[breitbart.com...]

Yes, I know this is political speak, but every webmaster out there should be terrified. The big names are willing to play in this event, but what if they decide to play in other, lesser events, such as ecommerce or Info? Where will this end? And we know that once trust has been broken it is dang difficult to ever regain!

[bill]

One hope is that this sort of governmental babysitting of SNS will lead toward the development of, and drive users to, other platforms. These SNS silos are hard for people to escape without some impetus.