{"id":141982,"date":"2020-02-20T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/berlin-moves-ahead-with-tougher-hate-speech-legislation\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:10:09","slug":"berlin-moves-ahead-with-tougher-hate-speech-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/berlin-moves-ahead-with-tougher-hate-speech-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin moves ahead with tougher hate speech legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014  German Chancellor Angela Merkels government Wednesday approved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmjv.de\/SharedDocs\/Gesetzgebungsverfahren\/Dokumente\/RegE_Bekaempfung_Hasskriminalitaet.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&amp;v=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a law<\/a> that forces social media platforms to proactively report illegal content such as death threats or incitement of hatred to law enforcement authorities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the legislative package launched today, were targeting hate crimes with more force than before,\u201d Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, a Social Democrat, said in a written statement. \u201cIn the future, anyone who incites hate and threatens others online will be prosecuted more thoroughly and effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law approved Wednesday is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/pro\/germany-proposes-to-toughen-netzdg-hate-speech-law\/?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&amp;utm_campaign=cf2d27b77c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_29_05_13&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_10959edeb5-cf2d27b77c-189775021\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two pending proposals<\/a> to further toughen Germanys online hate speech rules, which are considered some of the most stringent in the world. Before taking effect, the law still needs to pass both chambers of Germanys parliament.<\/p>\n<p>While advocates say that tough rules are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/berlin-moves-ahead-with-tougher-hate-speech-legislation\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkels government Wednesd..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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