r/drama: Have you checked your report button recently?

Have you checked your report button recently?

1 2018-12-18 by Oh_hamburgers_

I'd hope not because what kind of asshole actually uses it? That's not the point though, the point is that there is a new option:

Report this content under NetzDG

Now what the hell is NetzDG? Well, the krauts are at it again and they've somehow forced Reddit into following a law they passed in 2017, here's the wiki for it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz

You read that right, Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz.

According to the page, the aim of the law is to "combat agitation and fake news", but will also see social media sites "forced to remove hate speech more consistently".

Yikes.

34 comments

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1 MikeStoklasaAlcohol 2018-12-18

It's over for shitposter-cels

1 73696D756C6174696F6E 2018-12-18

I wish it'd be over celcels.

1 duckraul2 2018-12-18

It's over for overcels

1 McFluffTheCrimeCat 2018-12-18

Did you not even try to use the report feature? It’s only available for German users and redirects to a form to fill out that German citizens can submit. Lazy bum.

1 Oh_hamburgers_ 2018-12-18

Well no I didn't want to report some random post to the krauts. It's still weird though man, and I wonder what happens if a German reports a non-German?

1 SuperiorExcess 2018-12-18

Doesn't matter, Reddit just has to remove it.

1 Oh_hamburgers_ 2018-12-18

So reddit has to remove a post by an American that a German believes is hate speech or "fake news"?

1 SuperiorExcess 2018-12-18

Yeah that's how shit online generally works? If a Canadian pirates a Dutch show, and the Dutch ask the Americans at Reddit to comply, they're probably going to do that. Or the other way around is possible, just tell them to fuck off and get blocked in Dutchland.

Or what's actually going to happen: only the most hardcore of autismos are going to bother filling in these forms, Reddit will tell 99.7% of them to get fucked and not do anything and the German e-Polizei won't bother to enforce it because why would they.

1 Oh_hamburgers_ 2018-12-18

Well yeah but that's copyright of course it works that way, but hate speech and fake news are a different story and usually subjective. I think your second assessment is correct though, not to mention Reddit posts only matter for like 24 hours and this system seems like it would take a few days to actually get content removed.

Still think it's a bit weird though that and offended German could (potentially) get someone from another censored for offending them.

1 aX10mAt1CaL1Y 2018-12-18

History repeats itself...

1 Squiddy_titties 2018-12-18

> Amerilards believing they're free when any German can censor their websites.

Lmao

1 SuperiorExcess 2018-12-18

Yeah I was going to report this post for the lulz and it's an actual seriousposting form in German. Obviously done on purpose.

1 trilateral1 2018-12-18

So whenever I'm in Germany I have special removal privileges? Nice :D

1 SuperiorExcess 2018-12-18

Es ist vorbei für Krautcels