{"id":110853,"date":"2011-07-05T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T05:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=110853"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T05:28:01","slug":"germany-considers-facebook-party-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/05\/germany-considers-facebook-party-ban.html","title":{"rendered":"Germany Considers Facebook Party Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Facebook parties could be banned in Germany after several parties organized through the social networking site have become unruly and violent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/europe\/germany\/110705\/germany-considers-facebook-party-ban\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Global Post reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>German police are considering the ban for law and order reasons, after a party organized in Hamburg went viral.<\/p>\n<p>The party, held last month after being advertised on Facebook descended into chaos when 1,600 people gatecrashed a 16-year-old girl\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred Hamburg police offers made 11 arrests after the girl had forgotten to adjust her privacy settings so that only her friends would be alerted as to the event.<\/p>\n<p>During a crackdown one weekend in June, police stopped several Facebook parties across Germany and detained 41 people at an impromptu party in the town of Wuppertal after 16 party-goers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>According to German Speigel Online Uwe Sch\u00fcnemann, Lower Saxony&#8217;s interior minister and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that a ban should be imposed on gatherings which &#8220;threaten public security and order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His Bavarian counterpart Joachim Herrmann stressed that officials should have the power to halt a party before uninvited &#8220;party guests&#8221; turn up to vandalize or riot.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the UK Telegraph, opponents of the proposal say a ban would be unworkable as it would be impossible for police would monitor Facebook chatter for evidence of a large party. Blanket bans would also persecute people who had no intention of causing trouble, opponents argue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA blanket ban is too simplistic,\u201d said Dieter Wiefelsputz, domestic policy spokesperson for the opposition Social Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly in justified cases, when riots are predictable should a ban be imposed. It is necessary to educate young people about the dangers and potential costs of an out-of-control party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Education would include, presumably, how to use the site\u2019s privacy settings so a party\u2019s potential guest list can be contained.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is the most popular social networking site in Germany with more than 19 million users.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Facebook parties could be banned in Germany after several parties organized through the social networking site have become unruly and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10912,29190,15652],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}