Europe is preparing Internet censorship with Google and Facebook

[Christophe]

Little by little, the censor bird is making its nest (and I'm not talking about Twitter):

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Let's not come and lecture Iran and North Korea anymore, huh!

[Christophe]

The video :

[Christophe]

Oh sorry, it's not to censor it's to save energy...Mea Culpa...

[Obamot]

Ah wow and these idiots want to reduce the dose of television opium... It's going to be hot-potato.
So if we understand correctly, screen addicts will have more time to demonstrate in the streets? (eh-eh-eh...)

[Christophe]

The European Union will unleash a new wave of internet censorship in four months, under new legislation that has just been passed. From August, any platform with more than 45 million users will have to actively engage in the fight against what Brussels politicians might call "misinformation" or "hate speech". The rules are vaguely stated, but the potential fines are huge, up to 6% of turnover, which in the case of #Facebook is around 5 billion euros.

Social networks and video platforms are mainly targeted, but not only. These include #Facebook, #Instagram, #Twitter, #TikTok and video sites like #YouTube. But, beware, even #Wikipedia or #Google search will have to have additional filters in accordance with the "truth" of #Brussels and therefore no longer give links to sites that contradict the official line of the European Soviet, even on a explicit research from someone.

The 45 million user benchmark is so easy to achieve for internet companies that everything is covered by the new law, from mobile phone operating systems like Google's #Android, to Apple's #iOS, to Google Maps and retail sites like #Amazon. (Implicitly, books that contradict the official truth are "burned" from virtual bookstores).

It is not specified whether #WhatsApp will also have to censor private conversations 1 to 1, a performance that even the Communists could not achieve - they could at most listen to certain conversations, but not interrupt them in real time between sender and recipient.

#Tinder, which doesn't have many customers yet, narrowly escaped. But, if it develops further, we will end up with a dystopian reality where we will impose diversity quotas on you and fight against racism or homophobia for the people you associate with as well. Looking for a girlfriend, Thierry #Breton will appear and ask you on what criteria you discriminate. You find yourself in bed with her, Thierry Breton will appear between you to ask: "Do you know my amendment to the law on meetings...?"

With the exception of Chinese TikTok, most platforms are American. Digital is where the EU is currently waging a bitter bureaucratic war, and it is doing so in concert with the most radical wing of the American left. Thus, censorship could also enter through the back door in America. Indeed, for the moment, freedom of expression has an advantage in the United States, due to certain constitutional amendments and a political formation favorable to freedom. Some things that can be said in America are already punishable by imprisonment in European countries. But if companies have to censor their content for the European market, they will try not to miss out and apply the same filters to content produced in the United States.

[izentrop]

What is Peonia afraid of? These rules are intended to protect the most vulnerable from large-scale fraud on GAFA... https://www.francetvinfo.fr/internet/re ... 97682.html

[Obamot]

Do you want to talk about the frauds of Pfizer, INSEE, DREES, NIH, OMS, or Pin-Pin, Molimard, Von Der Leyen, Surgisphere and other Conspiracy-watch?

Diwouar between us eh, I will not repeat it!

[Janic]

or Pin-Pin, Molimard, Von Der Leyen, Surgisphere and other Conspiracy-watch?

Oh there! Don't touch the official conspirators.

[Exnihiloest]

What is Peonia afraid of? These rules are intended to protect the most vulnerable from large-scale fraud on GAFA... https://www.francetvinfo.fr/internet/re ... 97682.html

It's very dangerous. Protecting the weak doesn't have to come at the expense of everyone else.
Everything is amalgamated while unrelated: a fraudulent seller on an online sales site must be eliminated by the site, everyone will agree, I think. But in terms of freedom of expression, who will judge that a message is "hateful" or not? "Islam is the dumbest of religions" can be described as a "hate message", and hop, a Houellebecq could be banned from Twitter.
And once the finger is in the gears, it is extremely easy to make the system evolve towards more and more restrictions of freedom of expression or to interpret what is said in the appropriate sense. And to whom do we give this power of censorship? At the GAFAs! Apparently they will be ordered to delete a "hate message" as soon as they find out about it, but according to what criteria? And if we dispute that this message would be of hatred, do they have an obligation to restore it as soon as they become aware of the dispute? Of course not.
All of this only goes in one direction: the strengthening of political power over the citizen by connivance or even collusion with commercial and financial power, and the refusal of his emancipation as a free man, which requires the acceptance of risks that yet he is willing to take (like facing real hate messages or propaganda misinformation from a country like Russia).

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Bah, one of these four, after "hate", we will no longer be entitled to cynicism, mockery, condescension, contempt, understatement, puns, black humor (black, you imagine!), etc, etc... we are in "Demolition Man"...