Facebook and Twitter could pay the price for hate speech
Summary
Germany's proposal to fine social media companies for failing to remove illegal content is said to be a significant moment in democracy's battle with digital giants. The German Government have published a draft law that will carry huge fines for social media networks which fail to comply with promptly removing hate speech, fake news and other undesirable content from their platforms. Social media companies will be required to explain rules & complaint procedures to users of their platforms and follow up on each and every complaint. Behind this proposed law that Germany is proposing is a believe that big internet companies don't take responsibility for their actions.
Key Statistics
- Social media companies could be looking at fines for as much as 50 million euros for failing to comply.
- Content that is evidently illegal must be taken down within 24 hours of it being identified.
My Opinion
I definitely think that social media companies need to take more responsibility for monitoring what is being posted on their platforms. However, I do not agree with this idea that the way to do this is to produce a law because the companies are so big they might not spot everything and therefore be in breach of the law every time and face huge fines which could be very bad for them financially. So instead, I think that to combat such issues I think that social media companies and other big internet organisations just need to re evaluate their strategies and work hard to implement them potentially with a human team rather than just leaving the work to an algorithm which is what is getting them tangled up in such situtions that this article discusses.
I definitely think that social media companies need to take more responsibility for monitoring what is being posted on their platforms. However, I do not agree with this idea that the way to do this is to produce a law because the companies are so big they might not spot everything and therefore be in breach of the law every time and face huge fines which could be very bad for them financially. So instead, I think that to combat such issues I think that social media companies and other big internet organisations just need to re evaluate their strategies and work hard to implement them potentially with a human team rather than just leaving the work to an algorithm which is what is getting them tangled up in such situtions that this article discusses.
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