Facebook, Google, Twitter pledge to increase efforts moderation

Germany on Tuesday announced the approval of both the Facebook and Twitter and Google to delete the hate speech from their websites within 24 hours, in a new step to combat racism that has spread over the Internet in the wake of the refugee crisis.

The German government is trying to urge social networking platforms to work to end the anti remarks of foreigners in Germany, which dramatically increased on the Internet, at a time when the country suffers from the difficulty of dealing with the influx of more than a million refugees this year.

He said Justice Minister German Heiko MAS said the new agreement makes it easier for users and groups anti-racism that you reporting on the statements that call for hatred specialized teams within the three companies.

The minister added, "when it is beyond the limits of freedom of expression, and when the speech refers to criminal expressions and spread sedition and incitement to carry out criminal crimes threaten people, this content must be deleted from the web."

Minister Heiko diamonds and completed his remarks, "and we have to agree on the need to delete this kind of rhetoric that calls for hatred within 24 hours of notification with him."

Germany has done in the past month to raise several investigations affecting the social network Facebook and its failure to remove the speech calling for hatred and racism.

A spokeswoman for the prosecution last month that the social platform's failure to remove the speech calling for hatred may be the responsibility of the director Martin Ott Facebook management of the North and Central and Eastern Europe, based in Hamburg.

A social network Facebook spokesman said in response to those statements that the allegations lacked efficiency and network or any of its employees did not violate German law.

Facebook has partnered with a group called FSM, which in turn control of multimedia service providers on a voluntary basis, and says it will encourage users to move away from racism.

The vandals attacked the Facebook network of offices in the northern city of Hamburg at the weekend, attached to the damage to the entrance of the building, and they Bbouk phrase "Facebook dislike" on the wall.