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Social media riot shutdowns possible under EU content law, top official says (www.politico.eu)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"If they don't act immediately, we'll be able to ban the operation [of the platforms] on our territory." Nineteen very large online platforms will have to comply to limit the spread of illegal and harmful content.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Curious how demands made against federated instances would work out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

illegal and harmful content.

Likely depends on how that is described.

The fact that instances do not have huge corps with legal teams to back them. Likely means the admins of an instance will back down quickly.

But the advantage of federation. Is that if many disagree with the legal or harmful definition. There would likely be offers to host the content/community on an instance outside that jurisdiction.

[–] fubo 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As a reminder, any government official who thinks that they should have the power to stop members of the general public from communicating with one another, thereby shows themselves to be a violent authoritarian; thus disqualifying themselves from legitimately holding office in any liberal-democratic, social-democratic, or Christian-democratic government.

[–] downpunxx 4 points 2 years ago

oh look the very worst of Arab world politics going mainstream