German court rules Twitter has to remove offensive posts before they’re reported

woojoo666 · on Dec 18, 2022

In case people are wondering how Twitter would know something is offensive before it's reported:

> the ruling that Twitter has a duty not only to remove the illegal content that is reported, but also to track down fundamentally similar content anywhere on the platform, from any account, and ensure that it ceases

So I guess we just trust that Twitter's "similarity" ranking is infallible

nullish_signal · on Dec 18, 2022

Why doesn't the EU just block Twitter before any more Germans take Offense?

It's a US company, they can Eat Dirt.

nitwit005 · on Dec 18, 2022

Do a Google search for "twitter subsidiaries". They have a heap of overseas subsidiaries to do business abroad, which unsurprisingly, have to work within local law.

Am4TIfIsER0ppos · on Dec 18, 2022

Why doesn't germany just arrest people before they commit an offense?

themitigating · on Dec 18, 2022

In your example

Germany is twitter The offensive post is the criminal/crime

What you mean is "why doesn't Germany arrest people before someone reports a crime" not before it's committed.

So what you're saying doesn't make sense because Germany investigates crimes, arrests people for them, etc even if someone doesn't report it