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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 29 2017, @06:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-don't-say dept.

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Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies have been given an ultimatum by the European Union: rid your platforms of hate speech or face legal consequences.

European regulators have been pushing social media firms to remove racist and violent posts from their platforms in a timely manner for years. Their patience is running out.

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google have all pledged to do more. In May 2016, they promised to review a majority of hate speech flagged by users within 24 hours and to remove any illegal content.

But the European Commission, EU's top regulator, said Thursday they are still failing to act fast enough. It said it would pass laws allowing the EU to impose punishments on companies that fail to act.

"The situation is not sustainable: in more than 28% of cases, it takes more than one week for online platforms to take down illegal content," said Mariya Gabriel, the EU's top official in charge of the digital economy and society.

The Commission said it will consider implementing new laws to tackle the problem if the online platforms fail to "take swift action over the coming months."

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/28/technology/hate-speech-facebook-twitter-europe/index.html


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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday September 29 2017, @09:28PM (2 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday September 29 2017, @09:28PM (#575074)

    Option 1 sucks and gives you a "Great Firewall" situation.

    Option 2 would not work. The EU would not allow people in the US to post stuff to other people in the US unless they get to filter it for "hate speech" first.

    Options 3,4 are not possible. Someone needs to pay for this thing or it simply won't exist. EU and anyone else against free speech can simply attack the entity with the money.

    The EU either wants option 1 or full control of everyone's communications.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday September 29 2017, @10:31PM (1 child)

    by mhajicek (51) on Friday September 29 2017, @10:31PM (#575108)

    A free, peer-to-peer social network could work in theory, but without a large corporation pushing it it would never attain critical mass.

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    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday September 30 2017, @10:50PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday September 30 2017, @10:50PM (#575398) Journal

      Usenet was a peer-to-peer network that in its best time quite certainly attained critical mass.

      And yes, there were Usenet servers and clients, but the servers were not operated by a single entity but formed a peer-to-peer network. In principle, everyone could set up an Usenet server.

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