The German government just gave us a way to destroy Facebook, reddit, Twitter, and other anti-free speech social media.

25  2016-12-20 by [deleted]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/facebook-fake-news-germany-threatens-new-law-big-fines/

I am going to use this to bankrupt reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and every other left leaning social network.

  1. Create private group with hundreds of collaborating members.

  2. Share the knowingly fake news and talk about it for 48 hours at least.

  3. Inform the police that the company has hosted fake news and must therefore be fined 500,000 Euros.

Repeat at least once per week for one year, and you've cost Facebook 27,030,900 USD. Have about 60 groups do this, which is very doable, and you could potentially make it more expensive for Facebook to be in Germany than Facebook Earns in revenues for all of Europe. Facebook only makes 1.5 billion dollars per year in Europe right now. We could force Facebook to withdraw from the European market so that companies like Gab could actually provide a real free platform for us. We will need a few thousand German residents to do this properly. We might be able to spoof as Germans with proxies and machine translation.

There is nothing in this law about fining the users, so they can do this with impunity, plus they can always hide behind Tor or a VPN anyway. Facebook can't hide.

4 comments

13  ArchonFall4All 2016-12-20

I'm sure these sites will just create filters that prevent these articles from being posted in the first place. And they'll have the perfect excuse for the censorship, thanks to Germany

5  [deleted] 2016-12-20

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3  ArchonFall4All 2016-12-20

Good point. I could see rehosted content still being filtered out by advanced algorithms, but they wouldn't be able to stop screen captures or something like that.

8  petrus4 2016-12-20

Reddit I don't mind, but it would make me very happy to see Twitter destroyed. I remember IRC, which existed before Twitter. It was a better, distributed alternative, and it was non-corporate.

3  Tamerlane-1 2016-12-20

You realize the law hasn't, and likely won't, pass.