For a year now, Facebook and co. have to delete by law, criminal content within 24 hours. Complaints about the networks there are only a few. Nevertheless, critics doubt the success of the law.
A year after the entry into force of the law against hate on the net a complaint to the wave of Internet users is not materialized to date.
In 2018, a total of 714 messages, in which users complained that Online platforms would not have deleted illegal content in spite of their complaint within the statutory period, or locked.
Originally Federal office of justice had expected, with 25,000 cases in the year, informed the authority of the “New osnabrück newspaper”.
In the event of violations against the deletion of duty platforms for penalties of up to 50 million euros Online.
penalties of up to 50 million Euro
1. January 2018 was entered into the network enforcement of the law (short NetzDG).
It stipulates that Online platforms like Facebook or YouTube content, which are punishable by law, within 24 hours after a note to delete it. In less clear cases, you have a week’s time.
users are not able to complain to the Federal office of justice, if the networks are fast enough to react.
readjustment of the law, not abolish
The Vice-Chairman of the Green party, Konstantin von Notz, the newspaper said: “The Figures are good as an indicator for the Functioning of the law.” Rather, they showed that the reporting channels are the platforms user-unfriendly.
Konstantin von Notz on the NetzDG: “gender Readjustment.”
The chief Executive of the digital Association Bitkom, Bernhard Rohleder, called for a Review of the Law “to the question of whether it is not better, the NetzDG altogether.”
The Federal Ministry of justice evaluated the low complaint numbers, however, a positive “indication that the networks take the NetzDG complaints seriously and consider carefully.”
The NetzDG will no later than three years after the entry into force, i.e. until the end of 2020.