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In the European Parliament on Thursday, the proposal for a new EU copyright law has been put on hold. In this form, the Copyright Directive does not become a reality at this time. The controversial download filters have yet to wait. The disadvantages of this monitoring tool are shown by another failure of such a filter on Facebook. Quotations from the United States Declaration of Independence published by an American newspaper were deleted – presumably because they contained racist remarks against indigenous peoples. Among other things, the distanced section featured "ruthless Indian savages whose well-known mode of warfare consists in destroying them all, regardless of their age, bad and status".
The Liberty Texas newspaper "The Vindicator" In the perspective of Independence Day on July 4, the statement published by chance at Facebook . However, the tenth of twelve parts did not appear – and the US Internet company Facebook came out the message that it violated the rules on hate speech. "To be honest, this pbadage contains many things that can be considered hate speech," the newspaper acknowledges.
The world's largest online network has been under pressure for years to do more against hate speech and insults. Also the procedure against the explicit contents is criticized again and again. Facebook uses more and more automated software and emphasizes that more and more messages are filtered before users see them. In the past, Facebook had to apologize regularly after works of art and historical photos were temporarily removed because of the representation of nudity.
(Red./APA)
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