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Silicon Valley is a uniquely American creation, the product of an entrepreneurial spirit and no-holds-barred capitalism that now drives many aspects of modern life.
But the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple are increasingly facing an uncomfortable truth: it is Europe's culture of tougher oversight of companies, not America's laissez-faire attitude, which could soon rule their industry as governments seek to combat fake news and prevent extremists from using the internet to fan the flames of hatred.
While the U.S. has largely relied on market forces to regulate content in a country where free speech is revered, European officials have shown they are willing to act. Germany recently passed a law imposing fines of up to 50 million euros ($59 million) on websites that don't remove hate speech within 24 hours. British Prime Minister Theresa May wants companies to take down extremist material within two hours. And across the EU, Google has for years been obliged to remove search results if there is a legitimate complaint about the content's veracity or relevance.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 03 2017, @04:56PM (4 children)
ZuckerJew won't throw money away, he's Jewish.
And besides that point, the goal of people like him is to foist European-style free-speech restrictions on Americans. He could state some bullshit like, "Well, we had to comply with European regulations and since we are an international entity we also had to apply the same rules to domestic (American) users."
I hate that faggot-fuck. He's got the face and the shit-eating grin that just makes you want to instinctively punch him. You're making him money and giving all of your info to intelligence agencies, and he thinks you're all dumb-fucks for doing it.
Starve the beast and quit Facebook today.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @06:31PM (1 child)
Another day, another stupid post.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @08:04PM
The form was questionable, the content kinda accurate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @11:52PM (1 child)
Zuckerjew? Don't you mean Jewkerberg?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 10 2017, @02:22PM
Cuckerberg