Posted on 03/18/2017 8:22:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Social media companies Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Twitter Inc. will have to amend their terms of service for European users within a month or face the risk of fines, a European Commission official said on Friday.
U.S. technology companies have faced tight scrutiny in Europe for the way they do business, from privacy to how quickly they remove illegal or threatening content.
The Commission and European consumer protection authorities will “take action to make sure social media companies comply with EU consumer rules,” the official said.
The comments confirmed a Reuters report from Thursday.
Germany, the most populous EU state, said this week it planned a new law calling for social networks such as Facebook to remove slanderous or threatening online postings quickly or face fines of up to €50 million ($53 million). …
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I am sure all the little tech commies will comply.
The Eeyew, fakebook, google and twitter are all birds of a feather. A pox on all of ‘em.
But the lies and agenda driven social reconstruction can continue.
How long before Twitter bans Trump?
Martin Luther posted some offensive stuff once.
Should have ‘nipped it in the bud’.
Google should just block all EU domains for a day and see what they think then.
Google should just block all EU domains for a day and see what they think then.
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Why would the NSA cut their data feed?
The market is ripe for a true free speech alternative to all these POS “social media “ clown sites
Yup. His heresy has led directly to secular modetnism. Finally agree.
Hmmm- the EU owns the Internet now? How are they going to enforce their toothless fines?
In Reality Facebook, Google, and Twitter are nothing more than Sophisticated Computer Viruses
Good luck untangling the NSA and CIA front-doors, back doors, monkeys in the middle and other nasty tricks from these companies.
It is not going to happen.
The BND has its own set of computer hackers/crackers. They are certainly working on it.
1. Make it illegal to host “nazi” material.
2. Declare everything the left doesn’t like “nazi”.
3. BigTech shuts down everything critical of the left.
4. Cites “European Law” when doing so.
There is always a silver lining even in the most bizarre usually undesirable social systems.
I had to smile at the announcement by Microsoft that all new PCs with the latest microprocessors from Intel and AMD will in the future refuse to update Microsoft operating systems running Windows 7.
I expect the Europeans will not take that lying down.
Further I see a great push to create European competitive software and hardware incompatible with Microsoft.
Further, I see a significant move to Apple from people who swore never to buy Apple; myself included.
Unintended consequences.
The EU furthering its defense of Islam.
Islam is a war plan.
how about no selling of personal material without compensation?
Universal right to delete personal information.
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