{"id":54572,"date":"2018-01-05T03:54:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T03:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/bloomberg-2018-is-the-year-of-censored-social-media\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T03:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T03:54:28","slug":"bloomberg-2018-is-the-year-of-censored-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/bloomberg-2018-is-the-year-of-censored-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: 2018 Is \u2018the Year of Censored Social Media\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent op-ed, Bloomberg predicted that 2018 will be the year of heavily censored social media.<\/h2>\n

In a recently published op-ed<\/a> titled, \u201cWelcome to 2018, the Year of Censored Social Media,\u201d Leonid Bershidsky explores the growing issue of censorship across social media platforms, an issue that Breitbart Tech has focused on for some time. Bershidsky discussed the recent announcement<\/a> by the German government that they plan to enforce online hate speech laws introduced in 2017 across all social media platforms, a move that could cost the companies running those platforms millions in fines if they don\u2019t immediately remove offending content from their platforms within 24 hours. As a result, social media companies have become particularly hasty to remove any content that may fall under the term of \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bershidsky notes that on January 1st, 2018, Beatrix von Storch, a right-wing legislator for German political party AfD, was removed from Twitter for questioning a tweet sent in Arabic by a German police Twitter account. \u201cWhat the hell is going on in this country?\u201d she tweeted in response. \u201cDo you mean to soften up the barbaric, Muslim, group-raping male hordes in this way?\u201d Von Storch was banned from Twitter for this tweet. AfD co-leader Alice Weidel came to von Storch\u2019s defense in a tweet<\/a> saying, \u201cCensorship! Our authorities surrender to imported, marauding, grabbing, fighting, knife-sticking migrant mobs. Beatrix von Storch correctly criticizes German police for tweeting in Arabic \u2014 and is closed down.\u201d Von Storch has since had her account reinstated.<\/p>\n

AfD is just one group likely to fall victim to Germany\u2019s strict hate speech laws and as a result are likely to fight future account suspensions or tweet deletions in court according to Bershidsky. Von Storch is already testing ways to get around Twitter\u2019s censorship rules, tweeting in a sarcastic manner, \u201cThere are no barbarians among the group-raping male hordes. Especially not when they\u2019re Muslims. I find it fantastic that they feel good here and have fun. So?\u201d Thus far, Twitter has not removed the tweet, so it seems that sarcasm may be a line of defense for Germans on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Top-selling German newspaper Bild has decried<\/a> the new social media censorship calling the new law a \u201csin\u201d against freedom of opinion which is guaranteed in the German constitution. \u201cPlease spare us the thought police!\u201d reads a headline in the paper, Bild Editor-in-Chief Julian Reichelt commented on the German law saying \u201cThe law against online hate speech failed on its very first day. It should be abolished immediately,\u201d Reichelt wrote, stating that the social media censorship law was turning AfD politicians into \u201copinion martyrs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bershidsky states that social media censorship is not limited to just Germany. In December 2017, Facebook banned the warlord leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, from both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook\u2019s argument for doing so was that Kadyrov had been added to the U.S. government\u2019s sanction list,but many other sanctioned individuals retain their accounts across Facebook\u2019s platforms. The removal of Kadyrov from these platforms also made it much harder for journalists covering Chechnya to gain vital information on the warlord.<\/p>\n

Read the full piece in Bloomberg View here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan_<\/a> or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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