Quote: (06-23-2017 10:15 PM)spokepoker Wrote:
How are they going to actually fine Facebook?
You're not seeing the forest for the trees, mate. Zuckerberg is ideologically squarely aligned with Merkel and the SJW fanatics. There never (or rarely) will be such a fine as this measure just being used as an excuse to justify more draconian free speech violations, which FB is more than happy to support. Do you think it's a coincidence that so many Islamic terrorist organizations are able to spread their cause through FB so effectively up to this day?
It would be very easy to shut this kind of shit down. Google (which for the record I don't consider a paragon of free speech) did just that a few years ago when Germans were all in a huff about Google Streetview and how it was infringing on people's privacy, yada yada. So instead of jumping through a dozen hoops they told them to pound sand and simply cut it off. Even until today you cannot get Streetview across most of Germany with the exception of a few larger cities (why I actually don't know).
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about personal privacy but how does Streetview affect anyone's privacy if you are able to simply walk through any public street and see the facades with your own eyes? And Streetview is already pixeling out license plates and people's faces. So it was a complete non-issue which nevertheless was strongly pursued because Germans knew that they were going up against an 'evil' corporation and not a religious sect that may actually retaliate violently.
The 'oh you don't like what I do - then fuck off' approach is extremely effective over the long term, especially if your service addresses a real need. Although it does affect one's bottom line it often is the only moral and just thing to do.
One more thing about the Germans. Many cases of apparent cognitive dissonance you may come across can be explained by a nasty little character trait exhibited by Germans, but also Austrians, Dutch, Swedes, the Danish, and other primarily Germanic nations. They love to
kick down and kiss up, and they have a huge respect and for anyone wearing a uniform or flashing an official title.
That means although they would never dare to collectively get together and for example all go up against a turkish family clan that's terrorizing their neighborhood, they'll be more than happy to rat out that neighbor next door which may be growing weed in his apartment or the poor schmuck who works until 3:00am and then is forced to park illegally overnight. They know that there will be zero personal consequences to them and they also simply enjoy sticking it to the other guy. Germans are famous for hiding behind laws and regulations and will cut you zero slack if you're in a bind, simply because they can and they think 'it's the right thing to do'.
This is the very same reason why they respond very vehemently against any signs of perceived 'right extremism' whilst at the same time condoning the raping and pillaging of their communities by islamic marauders. Some mistake it for plain old cowardice and there's probably some truth to this, but I think it roots deeper. There is something in the Germanic soul that enslaves them to their leaders. Perhaps too many irreverent warriors have lost their lives over the past century and thus the Germanic gene pool now mostly consists of the left overs, the weaklings, the traitors, and the lemmings. Then again those character traits have been present for centuries now with even Napoleon and Stalin joking about it.
The anti-dote to all this is what in Germany is referred to as the 'Nazi-Keule', the 'Nazi Bluegeon'. Germans will literally do or sacrifice ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING in order to not be called a Nazi. Muslims figured this out years ago and since then have been running circles around the German legal system and at this point have managed to completely uproot the entire nation from the inside out. They were smart enough to realize that they could destroy the system from within by employing the Nazi-Keule every time they didn't get what they wanted. Which has proven to be hugely effective.