Germany tightens online hate speech rules to make platforms send reports to feds

One of the few good things to say is that Germany's case doesn't seem to be an attempt to try to bypass its own internal restrictions at least. But that bar should be so low that it is buried.

The wise men indeed recognized that judging whether or not content is illegal and thus censored should be left to judges, not private companies.

I would not be surprised if the German law ends up with the same fate.

The private companies have an advantage, though, in that they can apply automated filtering, machine learning, what have you, as content is uploaded - when you're getting 500 hours of content[1] or 350,000 tweets[2] uploaded per minute, there is zero possibility that law enforcement can monitor and flag that effectively.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-up... [2] https://www.dsayce.com/social-media/tweets-day/