[ April 23, 2024 ]
Facebook continues to wage war against the freedom of speech. Facebook agreed Tuesday night to hand French judges the identification data of French users who are suspected of distributing hate speech, the country’s digital affairs minister said. Who decides what’s hate speech? Who decides what’s good and what’s forbidden? Facebook, an American communications company, is aiding and abetting the criminalization of speech. It is unthinkable.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The globalized, “bobo-ized [bourgeois Bohemian] upper classes” are filling the “new citadels” — as in Medieval France — and are voting en masse for Macron. They have developed “a single way of talking and thinking… that allows the dominant classes to substitute for the reality of a nation subject to severe stress and strain the fable of a kind and welcoming society.” — Christophe Guilluy, Twilight of the Elites, Yale University Press, 2019.
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Facebook To Give French Judges Identifying Data Of People Suspected Of Hate Speech, Official Says
By Chris White, Daily Caller, June 26, 2019
Facebook agreed Tuesday night to hand French judges the identification data of French users who are suspected of distributing hate speech, the country’s digital affairs minister said.
The decision comes after several meetings between Zuckerberg and French President Emmanuel Macron, who wants to take a leading role globally on the regulation of hate speech. France’s minister for digital affairs Cedric O, one of Macron’s advisers, has been an influential person directing Macron’s thinking on big tech issues.
“This is huge news, it means that the judicial process will be able to run normally,” O told Reuters. “It’s really very important, they’re only doing it for France.”
Facebook previously refused to provide such identification data because the Silicon Valley company was worried countries without an independent judiciary could abuse it. It was also not required to fork over data under U.S.-French legal conventions. The company has been under intense pressure to crack down on misinformation.
Some are hailing the move, calling it a decision that could have implications across the industry.
“It is a strong signal in terms of regulation,” Sonia Cisse, a counsel at law firm Linklaters, told reporters Tuesday. “Hate speech is no longer considered part of freedom of speech, it’s now on the same level as terrorism.”
The decision comes at an awkward moment for government officials and the company. Facebook has increasingly come under fire for being lax with the private data of its users, especially after lawmakers opened an investigation of the company’s decision to provide data to Cambridge Analytica before the 2016 presidential election.
The company disclosed to investors in April that company officials are putting $3 billion aside in the event the Federal Trade Commission fines them for their role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. They have not reached a settlement with the FTC. The fine could be as high as $5 billion.
Facebook did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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18 Comments
4 years ago
Mark co-ksuckerberg just never quits. The little punk POS will find out he isn`t god. The traitor anti-American should be in jail and FB put out of business permanently and all his money confiscated.
4 years ago
Zuckerberg and Macron are certainly doing their part in bringing Orwellian surveillance down on society, but it’s not just our speech or what we write that we should be worried about. If France is putting Hate speech (i.e. speaking the truth) on the same level as terrorism, what will be considered as terrorism next: the commission of a face crime? If you have an improper facial expression when certain things (e.g. moslems, mosques, beheadings, gang rapes, etc.) are mentioned will that too be considered on the same level as terrorism? Controlling our speech may not be enough for the “Ministers of Truth”, they may/will also want to control our facial expressions and the “Thought Police” will monitor what we think. Just imagine what a liberal utopia this would be…
4 years ago
Reply to
Citizen 1949
Phuck SuckerBrat – he will be committing harry-kerry soon! His sin’s are great & his consciousness is shallow! Stupid Sora$$ knob-gobbler!
4 years ago
All French users of FB should shut down their accounts immediately.
4 years ago
Reply to
ConnectingDots
Macron’s french are like TruDope’s Canadians – stupid like shite!
4 years ago
Anybody who uses Facebook is like the capitalists who sold Lenin the rope to hang them with. Human flaws like greed (the capitalists)and vanity (Facebook users) lead to the same destination – perdition.
4 years ago
Actually, I don’t believe in reptiloids. But when I see
Suckerberg’s face, I see a remote-controlled robot.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
His eyes are dead, his face shows no sign of emo-
tion. This guy is either sick or from another world.
4 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I’ve already reported on it.
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2019/06/denier-aol-blasted-by-holocaust-museum.html/#comment-4516069863
4 years ago
And just what kind of “hate speech” are the Fwench surrender monkeys looking for on Facistbook? Antisemitism? Bwahahahahahahahahaha, just kidding.
4 years ago
This is the world where people are persecuted for what they think, welcome the modern crusade, God help us
4 years ago
Looks like Data is mining you, after all.
4 years ago
Mark Suckerbrat – when are your balls gonna drop & become an American?? – you are a despicable POS tyrant & traitor! – as fast as you made your fortune – you will become a hunted tyrant!!! – your sorry a$$ is grass! – & all your 30 some bodyguards won’t be able to help your treasonous a$$! You sick POS “jew”! Go OFF YOURSELF!
4 years ago
Are people still using this anti-western, anti-social, anti-civilization tool??
I wonder then….
4 years ago
OK
4 years ago
SELF-HATING JEW.
Also a thief, stole Facebook from college “friend”.
Insecure, sexually-frustrated gimp.
4 years ago
And will people who violate this law be arrested like that British woman was several years ago for saying negative things about Muslims on social media?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-34831227
4 years ago
Looks like little Markie Zuckerberg needs to be taken down a notch or two. He’s getting a little too big for his britches.
