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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) by Common Joe on Sunday November 05 2017, @04:59AM (1 child)
Only 4 sentences packed into 83 characters... and I'm not quite sure where to begin.
I agree with 50% of your message and loathe the other 50%. Your score is currently marked as flamebait with 4 with points because you received 2 insightfulls, 2 flamebaits, 1 informative, and 1 funny -- a fair rating, so I'll just leave everything as is.
First off, I agree with you on the legality of free speech. It should be completely open. However, when I first read the words "Fuck Europe" and that Europe could "suck a dick", I thought you were talking about people like me. I'm an American living in Europe (because I dared fall in love with a European). However, knowing your history and re-reading the post, I know you're talking about politicians, the political situation, etc. BUT...
For your information, if Soylent News were to ever be filtered in Germany, I -- one of your fellow Americans who agrees with you about free speech -- would lose an important source to help remind me how to critically think. It's one of the very few places I can find people that help challenge my way of thinking because it doesn't often fall prey to over simplifying a complex situation in a tweet-sized "message". Which is what leads me be miffed at you because you are over-simplifying a complex situation with a tweet-sized message. The very thing that both left and right wingers are guilty of.
Look, I'm not European either, but with your tweet size rant, you're insulting both a lot of Germans I know and the many Americans who live here when you say "I'm not European... They can suck a dick."
Yeah, I know. You couldn't give a shit about our feelings.
But here's a pro tip from someone trying to educate the masses that you're thumbing your nose at: Don't insult your target group. You have a bad habit of that and if you want to change the world, you have to look at things from other people's perspective and alter what you say to they will be receptive to your ideas. People do have feelings and when those feelings are hurt, your message will not be received. Although there's a time to be crass and insensitive, you cross that line waaaay too often. You're hurting your own cause.
Or, maybe you don't want to change the world and you really want to tell about 7 billion people on the planet to suck a dick. (Including your fellow Americans living abroad.) I don't know. I can't ever tell with you.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 05 2017, @11:30AM
I thought it obvious from the context that this was a targeted "fuck you" rather than a broad spectrum one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.