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by soundwave106 3408 days ago
I'm not a fan of hate speech laws personally as a general concept, but Germany does have some pretty strong laws on their books regarding hate speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung). So Zuckerberg may not really have a choice here (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/technology/facebook-germa...).
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In The Netherlands we have these rules as well. It's forbidden to publicly offend _groups_ of people because of their race, faith, sex or handicap (art. 137c). It's also forbidden to encourage racism, hate or violence (art. 137d) and to publish or even possess publications that do so (art. 137e).