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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @06:31PM (3 children)
so uh
can you tell me what the european services were for email, search engine use, and social networking happened to be? maybe a character limited instant messaging service as well.
if my history is correct, there were none of those things that mattered in the US and the people that had any of those on a server at home were using products that were not in europe, mostly not by european programmers, nor could they get their family to log in or even call the damned bulletin board to play as a dummy in some door based game.
it took widespread high speed internet and either money or time. it geeks that set up the aforemented were employed already and thus a big company had to do it for the most part.
those companies didnt care what europe thinks, but then most people using America Online didn't either.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by Gaaark on Friday November 03 2017, @07:23PM
OMG!: Archy has joined SN!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel [wikipedia.org]
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Informative) by dry on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:17AM
Used to be a nice anonymous email service operating out of Finland until the Americans forced them to shut down due to the types of speech they were enabling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:11AM
> can you tell me what the european services were for email, search engine use, and social networking happened to be? maybe a character limited instant messaging service as well.
The Pirate Bay.