came under increasing pressure in Europe on Monday when countries proposed stricter rules to force them to block extreme material such as terrorist propaganda and child porn.
The push to make the big companies responsible for the torrent of material they carry has largely been driven by Europeans. But it picked up momentum after the March 15 mosque shootings in New Zealand that killed 50 people and were livestreamed for 17 minutes. Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos of the attacks in the 24 hours afterward.
"No one in the world has done this before, and it's important that we get it right," Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright told the BBC. Under the EU legislation that cleared an initial hurdle in Brussels, any internet companies that fail to remove terrorist content within an hour of being notified by authorities would face similar 4% penalties. EU authorities came up with the idea last year after attacks highlighted the growing trend of online radicalization.
And of content critical of the ruling party, the President or King/Queen, of the Media or Powerful. Sounds like Communism to me!
Once the internet was a free open place where a skilled AOL user could branch out of the yard and find information on anything. But like all things, human nature has taken a good thing and mangled it into a nightmare of lies and misuse. happy tuesday 🤗
The U.S. should do the same.
OR; blocking Conservative bloggers for reporting what the MSM will not report.
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It’s a slippery slope. The power to remove stuff will lead to corruption.
Contact the Twitter tots... They can help you with that...
Censorship is fear. 1984
FakeNews This is a cover so Big Brother can censor, silence, and arrest those who question globalist Establishment oligarchs and tyrants.
SM is theme of last & next decade like block chain ,ai & robotic human job issue Little thought or done too late has global warming hindsight
Or if you hurt someones feelings, use a non-prefered pronoun, post a photo in the kitchen with a knife...
Sounds like censorship. Just saying. What if the government decides that saying something disparaging (now known in Dem. circles as hate speech) about (.........) is now punishable.
UK sometimes you must face reality and that is NOW!!! Worth Brexit Breakdown the public needs to know the TRUTH and not just stuff about the royal family, whom they hate to give money too all of the time! Ban yourselves from Royal crap! The UK deserves to know TRUTH not FICTION!
Companies can't block content until it's already posted.
The UK has lost its mind, they're strangling free speech. People are being arrested on the street for preaching the name of Jesus Christ.
Yes!
Or fake news against king trump!! 🙄
Too Socialist. To much government control.
Must suck to live in the UK.
Why not just shut down social media..it would make the world such a better place
less bad stuff and MORE POEMS!
or anything the govt says
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