Japan enforces law for swift removal of defamatory online posts

Unfortunately Wikipedia, especially Japanese wiki, is a cesspool of right wing attacks on foreign journalists by right wingers, and it refuses to remove inflammatory contents.

Expect that vile Zuckerberg creep to have to be brought kicking and screaming to comply, if he even does.

Facebook has degenerated over the past few months into anything goes - slandering famous and non-famous people, accusing them of every heinous crime imaginable, and an outright refusal of FB to remove such posts.

This is just another fancy name for "Censorship".

@OssanAmerica

Seems like you enjoy living in a country where the freedom of speach and opinion can be "moderated" freely at the discretion of biased mods.

It's OK to censor vulgar and obscene language, but other's people opinions, just because you don't agree with them, seems to be another thing completelly.

This is just another fancy name for "Censorship".

No it isn't.

Seems like you enjoy living in a country where the freedom of speach and opinion can be "moderated" freely at the discretion of biased mods.

Seems you simply didn't understand the article. Or what freedom of speech is after all. Opinion is opinion, calling somebody a pedophile for example, without proof, is maybe an opinion too, but mostly defamatory. And that's what this is about. Not anybodies opinion on the taste of grape juice. Or the IQ of Trump (incidentally it's the same as the IQ of grape juice) Damn, defamation of Trump, this post might get deleted.

It will all hinge on the case-by-case judgement of what constitutes defamation. In Germany, it is illegal to 'insult' politicians. God help Japan if we go down that route.

quote: This is just another fancy name for "Censorship".

Yes, it is.

Legally, defamation should be an untrue statement, but social media (or JT) mods are in no position to investigate statements. Facing the threat of state punishment, they will inevitably err on the side of caution, which will in practice, amount to censorship. That's not because they are biased, but because they have jobs and want to keep them.

The new law is designed to protect the rich and powerful from #MeToo style accusations, and will work.

Similar laws protected a number of famous abusers until after they were dead. If defamation can be applied to a person's reputation post-mortem, then the law may actually protect the reputations of abusers even after they have died.

, but other's people opinions, just because you don't agree with them, seems to be another thing completelly.

Just watched an evening news program that explained the government's rationale: such defamatory posts can result in suicide, with the former Fuji network announcer at the heart of the Nakai scandal voicing her support, as online rumors posted on (-##uckerberg's and Musk's sites have caused her irreparable mental anguish.

So.

So-called free speech comes with responsibilities.

Well-done, Japan.

Freedom and freedom of speech are the much more important values. That means, anything should be allowed, saying everything, deleting or censoring everything and reading or ignoring everything. So someone can write something extreme or bad, but has no guarantee that it is published or reaches a target, lucky or unlucky by random. And if it reaches a target, that person can chose freely from reading it or ignoring it, just also lucky or unlucky by random. That's all to it, not any special handling necessary, because that is all only virtual, bits and bytes string patterns. There is nowhere coming something bad and really physically out of the computer or smartphone display, no direct hate speech or defamation, no fist, no knife or gun shot. Just nothing comes out of displays, I swear.

defamatory posts

That is much too general. Truth should seldom be censored. If someone is doing something socially or legally wrong, it can be defamatory, but still 100% true.

As someone who follows idols and generally other otaku entertainment, it's really annoying to see dozens of defamatory and "anti" posts on X every single day targeted towards the idol group members or content creators with reports having absolutely zero effect.

Couldn't care less about politics and "muh free speech" aspect as long as it cleans up the "anti "trash from X and other social media platforms.

So I guess you mean "censorship". right?

remaining questions is

who will decide what is right and what is wrong?

say you put some post at FB and your post will just dissapear?

Japan have constitution and freedom of speech is guaranteed.so I am wondering who will be one to drawn that thin line or say in short-who will OWN truth?

As someone who follows idols and generally other otaku entertainment, it's really annoying to see dozens of defamatory and "anti" posts on X every single day

This has to be a joke, but let's say it isn't.

If what is posted isn't true, then it needs to be blocked and the whoever posted it, charged with a crime. If found guilty, the fine should be stiff.

It it is true, it needs to stay up, unless it will incite someone to harm themselves or others, physically. I can think of a few other reasons to block certain content, like names of criminals who kill others for fame. NZ blocks naming hate crime perps, for example. The crime is published, but not their name.

If you think X is a cesspool of anti- ideas, stop viewing it. Problem solved.