<http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/germany-facebook-zuckerberg/?xid=soc_socialflo...> German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office said on Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings. The spokesman declined to provide further details. German attorney Chan-jo Jun had filed a complaint with prosecutors in the Bavarian city in September and demanded that Facebook <http://fortune.com/fortune500/facebook-157/>FB <http://fortune.com/fortune500/facebook-157/> 0.83% executives be compelled to comply with anti-hate speech laws by deleting racist or violent postings from its site. Facebook’s rules forbid bullying, harassment, and threatening language, but critics say it does not do enough to enforce them and has failed to staunch a tide of racist and threatening posts on the social network during an influx of migrants into Europe. Prosecutors in Hamburg earlier this year rejected a similar complaint by Jun on the grounds that the regional court lacked jurisdiction because Facebook’s European operations are based in Ireland. “There is a different view in Bavaria,” his firm Jun Lawyers of Wuerzburg in Bavaria said in a statement. “Upon Jun’s request, Bavarian Justice Minister Winfried Bausback said that Hamburg’s view was wrong and German law does indeed apply to some of the offenses,” it said. Jun’s complaint named Zuckerberg, who is Facebook’s founder and chief executive, and nine other managers at the company. A spokesman for Facebook declined to comment on the proceedings. Jun has compiled a list of 438 postings that were flagged as inappropriate but not deleted over the past year. They include what some might consider merely angry political rantings, but also clear examples of racist hate speech and calls to violence laced with references to Nazi-era genocide. [...] Parafrasando Lessig "code is not law". I codici informatici estesi globalmente non si sovrappongono geograficamente a quelli giuridici ed entrano in conflitto. Limiti alla globalizzazione? ciao, Alberto