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Social Media Faces EU Fine If Terror Lingers for an Hour

posted by janrinok on Monday August 20 2018, @11:32PM   
from the demanding-the-impossible dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

From the BBC.

The European Commission is planning to order websites to delete extremist content on their sites within an hour to avoid the risk of being fined. The regulation would affect Twitter, Facebook and YouTube among others. The crackdown would lead to the EU abandoning its current approach - where the firms self-police - in favour of explicit rules.

The shake-up comes in the wake of high-profile terror attacks across Europe over the past few years.

Julian King, the EU's commissioner for security, told the Financial Times [Subscription required] that the EU would "take stronger action in order to protect our citizens".

The BBC has confirmed the details of the report.

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• Terror eh? Terror eh? (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @12:33AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @12:33AM (#723987)

  Now you just need to expand the definition of it so it covers everything you don't like (opposition parties, racists, gypsies, jews and other deviants). Convenient isn't it.

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• Re:Terror eh? (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:02AM

  by Aiwendil (531) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:02AM (#724080) Journal

  Well, it worked for communism*

  (* the word communism)

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• Re:Terror eh? (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @02:00PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @02:00PM (#724157)

  German government places Socialist Equality Party on subversive watch-list [wsws.org]:

  Last month, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, added the Socialist Equality Party to its official list of “left-wing extremist” organizations subject to state monitoring in its annual “constitutional protection report.” It is a calculated political attack on the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party—SGP).

  In previous years, the annual report did not mention the SGP. Now it appears twice—as one of three “left-wing extremist parties” and as an “object of observation,” to be monitored by the secret service.

  The secret service has made no accusation that the SGP is breaking any law or is engaged in violent activity. It even explicitly confirms that the SGP pursues its goals by legal means—that it “tries to gain public attention for its political ideas by participating in elections and through lectures.”

  It justifies the monitoring of the SGP exclusively by the fact that it advocates a socialist program, criticizes capitalism and rejects the establishment parties and the trade unions. The BfV report states: “The agitation of the SGP is directed in its program against the existing state and social order, as a generalized disparagement of ‘capitalism,’ against the EU, against alleged nationalism, imperialism and militarism and against social democracy, the unions and also against the party DIE LINKE [Left Party].”

  They're not interested in deplorables, but maybe they'll snag some Gypsies for the hell of it, especially since it'd go over like a led balloon to do that to the Jews again. RWNJs for example are typically a bit paranoid of such things (not that paranoia isn't warranted... obviously it is), but RWNJs aren't a threat to the ruling class. No, what they're worried about is the increasing consciousness that the working class must organize to demand a fair share of the wealth they produce.

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