4/02/2017

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas ventilates another of his luke warm farts: The „Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz“

Heiko Maas in full ministerial
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Could you slowly repeat this word so that it tickles your tongue: „Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz“. You feel it? Your tongue is knotted? Anyhoo, it is this:
New Hate Speech Law in Germany: Already Extended Before it Enters Into Force
The „Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz“ is no longer only directed against Hate Speech and Fake News, but also against pornographic content and many other offenses. In addition, the new draft now contains a clause permitting private persons the possibility of obtaining the identity of other private individuals, which could lead to the end of anonymity on the internet.
 In order to keep the internet aryan clean, ze Germans plan to set up an Internet SS.
Significant restrictions on freedom of expression and communication
We have already criticized the older draft as problematic for freedom of expression (German) and, among other things, the vague definition of social networks. Other voices have also suggested that the establishment of corporate intermediaries within the social networks to expedite the summons of courts and law enforcement be legally anchored and that the prosecution of authors of criminal hate speech (German) be emphasized.
The Digitale Gesellschaft criticizes the fact that the new draft makes social networks actually a content police of the Internet (German) and that it introduces the privatized enforcement of laws. With the expansion of the criminal catalogue and the inclusion of the possibility to request information for private individuals, these risks would be further intensified. The right for private persons to demand the personal data of other private persons for cases like those of defamation in a comment forum as introduced in the new draft involves the risk of enforcing the use of real names on the internet through a legal back door.

Breitbart has a good  Report: Supposedly Impartial ‘Fact-Checkers’ Driven by Political Prejudices.

The Justice Min. Heiko Maas is an accomplished Texas sharpshooter and one can be sure he has never heard of let alone read:

The Epistemology of Fact Checking

Abstract

Fact checking has become a prominent facet of political news coverage, but it employs a variety of objectionable methodological practices, such as treating a statement containing multiple facts as if it were a single fact and categorizing as accurate or inaccurate predictions of events yet to occur. These practices share the tacit presupposition that there cannot be genuine political debate about facts, because facts are unambiguous and not subject to interpretation. Therefore, when the black-and-white facts-as they appear to the fact checkers-conflict with the claims produced by politicians, the fact checkers are able to see only (to one degree or another) "lies." The examples of dubious fact-checking practices that we discuss show the untenability of the naïve political epistemology at work in the fact-checking branch of journalism. They may also call into question the same epistemology in journalism at large, and in politics. © 2013 Critical Review Foundation.

Or this dossier:

Il fact-checking come discorso politico (Pdf)

Sommario esecutivo

La  narrativa  dominante  ritiene  che  ci  si  trovi  oggi  nella  “politica  della  post-verità”,  in  cui  la  diffusione  di  false  notizie  sta  agevolando  l’ascesa  delle  Destre  populiste.  Ciò  ha  portato  ad  esaltare  il ruolo  del  cosiddetto  “fact-checking”  e  a  misure,  sia  aziendali  sia  legislative,  atte  a  istituire  strumenti censori  e  punizioni  per  le  presunte  false  notizie.  Tuttavia,  l’idea  che  ci  si  trovi  oggi  in  una  nuova fase  politica,  quella  della  “post-verità”,  è  opinabile. Fonte  di  preoccupazione  è  invece  la  prassi  osservabile  nel  fact-checking:  lungi  dal  limitarsi  ad  accertare  fatti  conclamati  e  indisputabili,  i  medesimi  metodi  sono  applicati  per  vagliare  le  opinioni  e giudicare  se  esse  siano  “vere”  o  “false”.  Il  fact-checking  si  rivela  carente  dal  punto  di  vista  epistemologico  e  metodologico,  rifiutando  di  dotarsi  di  criteri  scientifici  per  la  selezione  dei  casi  da  esaminare e per l’esame stesso.  Dietro  al  presunto  accertamento  oggettivo  dei  fatti  si  nasconde  spesso un tentativo  di  delimitare  le  opinioni  che  è  legittimo  esprimere,  delegittimando  le  altre  come  “false”. Ciò  invita  alla  massima  prudenza  nel  contrasto  alle  “fake  news”,  affinché  non  diventi  censura  di parte.

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