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Big Tech faces ‘major’ EU law on hate speech, disinformation
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Posted on 04/22/2022 12:33:15 PM PDT by janetjanet998

LONDON (AP) — Taking aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online, the European Union is nearing agreement on a sweeping law that would force big tech companies to police themselves harder, make it easier for users to flag problems, and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eu; fourthreich; technofascism
translation

more censorship

1 posted on 04/22/2022 12:33:15 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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Under the new law, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter would have to give users tools to flag things like hate speech in an “easy and effective way” so that it can be swiftly removed

These systems will be standardized so that they will work the same way on any online platform.

That means “any national authority will be able to request that illegal content is removed, regardless of where the platform is established in Europe,” the EU’s single market commissioner, Thierry Breton, said on Twitter.

2 posted on 04/22/2022 12:34:30 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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My goodness, even Hitler and Stalin would say this is taken too far! (/S)


3 posted on 04/22/2022 12:35:06 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: janetjanet998
Europe is at it again:


4 posted on 04/22/2022 12:36:30 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Get a VPN, connect through a server in a free country. Watch and read what you wish.


5 posted on 04/22/2022 12:37:00 PM PDT by packagingguy
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“translation - more censorship”

BINGO!!!


6 posted on 04/22/2022 12:37:59 PM PDT by Wuli
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Brought to you by Minitrue.


7 posted on 04/22/2022 12:42:02 PM PDT by EEGator
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Screw the EU and their Hitler mentality. If they don’t like it they can block social media in their countries.


8 posted on 04/22/2022 12:55:23 PM PDT by Revel
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Hate Speech: Criticism of a liberal politician.
Disinformation: The truth about a liberal politician.

That is really all you need to know if you are so foolish as to want to read the WP, NYT, LAT and such and listen to the imbeciles at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC.


9 posted on 04/22/2022 1:02:11 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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How many billions of gallons of blood have we spilled in Europe in recent decades? And THIS is the result?
10 posted on 04/22/2022 1:50:46 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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No,not Hitler...Mao. Hitler was an amateur by comparison.
11 posted on 04/22/2022 1:52:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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It's ironic for you to compare these hate speech laws to Hitler, because the first modern (post WW2) European hate speech laws punished anyone who questioned the Holocaust. And even these newer hate speech laws punish anti-Semites, anti-black racists (anti-white racism is okay), Islamophobes, and anti-LGBT.

So really, these post-WW2 hate speech laws are the flip side of Hitler. More Stalinist than Nazi.

12 posted on 04/22/2022 2:12:23 PM PDT by Angelino97
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They are the same sort of people. They just differ in details.


13 posted on 04/22/2022 2:22:57 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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