Network Enforcement Act (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz / NetzDG)

NetzDG, in force since 2017, requires social networks with more than two million registered German users to remove 'manifestly illegal' content within 24 hours and other illegal content within seven days of a complaint, to run accessible complaint procedures, and to publish biannual transparency reports, with fines up to 50 million euros enforced by the Federal Office of Justice. As an in-scope platform, Reddit introduced (around October 2018, without public announcement) an in-product option letting German users report content as violating specific sections of the German Criminal Code under NetzDG. This is a compliance response to the law rather than a documented fine or block against Reddit; the widely cited two-million-euro NetzDG penalty was levied on Facebook in 2019, not Reddit. No public record was found of a NetzDG monetary penalty against Reddit.