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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @10:38PM (2 children)
That's definitely a problem today. Arguably wasn't an unsolvable problem for the Pilgrims.
My argument for today is: find a place that claims to be made and run by free people, and then hold them to that claim. The USA's Constitution claims to have authority by way of an enumerated list of powers delegated to it by individual people. People in a group have no more authority than does a single individual: if I can't take 50% of my neighbor's income myself, neither can I delegate that ability to the IRS. Therefore US governments have no more authority than I as an individual do.
Lying governments don't like to be called out, though. They've been busy murdering [youtube.com] the peaceful [youtube.com] free [youtube.com] folk [youtube.com] infesting the USA for some time now. The living free folk have been watching the murders for decades, patiently observed that the "justice system" provides none of its namesake, and have adjusted out mindsets accordingly. There are going to be more government murders of free folk. But free folk will be alive after the death of the criminal US governments.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday September 29 2017, @11:55PM (1 child)
"... governments have no more authority than I as an individual do."
Sure they do. You can in most likelihood only shot one person at a time.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:36AM
Power is quite different from authority. A robber with a gun has power to rob, but no authority to rob.