It is incomprehensible that “photos of certain body parts are automatically deleted because of moral concerns, yet racist and xenophobic statements aren’t immediately removed”, Maas wrote in the letter, which was reported earlier by Tagesspiegel newspaper.
“We can possibly be interested by participating in an communicate with Federal Minister Mass so that we can determine what era, business and politics is able to do to jointly lessen the verbosity of xenophobia in Germany”, it carried out.
“Facebook users especially complain that your company has not taken effective action despite concrete indications of xenophobic and racist ‘posts, ‘” read the letter.
“The internet isn’t a place where laws are ignored, where indictable comments can be spread with impunity”, Maas said, adding he found it appalling that some were using Facebook to spread hatred against refugees and the Germans helping them.
“We understand that Facebook has a very special responsibility, and we work hard every day to protect people on Facebook from abuse, hate speech and bullying”, the statement said.
He wrote that users often received replies saying the post in question did not contravene the site’s community standards guidelines.
And customers additionally accuse the corporate of double requirements for cracking down swifter and more durable on nudity and sexual content material than on hate-mongering.
“If Facebook says “of course we do not want to circulate posts inciting hatred”, then it must delete them”, Maas told reporters outside a high school in Heidenau, the eastern German town where violent anti-refugee protests erupted at the weekend.
Facebook users in Berlin and the southern state of Bavaria have faced large fines this year for hate speech.
Germany is calling on Facebook to remove “xenophobic and racist” anti-migrant posts from its website and apps.
In March Facebook revealed an update of its global community standards, promising not to allow its site to be used as a platform for hate speech or terrorism.
And a German TV journalist’s impassioned attraction this month for an “rebellion of respectable individuals” towards racism and assaults on asylum-seekers was seen greater than 5 million occasions by way of Facebook alone inside forty eight hours, drawing an outpouring of each help and scorn.