Reuters: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to face same EU rules on hateful content as broadcasters

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Facebook, Alphabet-owned YouTube, Twitter and other social media will for the first time be subject to EU broadcasting rules on hate speech and harmful content under European Commission guidelines announced on Thursday.

The amendments to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive adopted in 2018 came in part from lobbying by broadcasters who wanted online platforms to have the same obligations as traditional media companies.

“Online players will have to ensure, in a similar way to traditional media players, that users are protected against hate speech and that minors are protected from harmful content,” the Commission said.

“Online platforms must take action against flagged content, which incites violence, hatred and terrorism, and ensure appropriate advertising and product placement in children’s programmes,” it said.

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The Commission also said video on-demand services would be required to devote at least 30% of their catalogues to European content, a move targeting Netflix and Amazon Prime.

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"The guidelines apply, limited yet welcome, new responsibilities to online platforms," the Association of Commercial Television in Europe said.

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Just what everyone has been asking for, more censorship.
 
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The amendments to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive adopted in 2018 came in part from lobbying by broadcasters who wanted online platforms to have the same obligations as traditional media companies.
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the bulk of broadcaster in europe are state-owned and publically funded, so this paragraph may as well read "lobbying by governments" tbh
 
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ConfederateIrishman said:
Most American companies want European users and will comply with almost any rule the EU puts out, which is how things played out when the EU rolled out GDPR; The libertarians were fools to accept companies getting this powerful.
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Google, Apple, and other big tech companies are notorious for complying with Chinese laws as well down to even making separate versions of their service for China or censoring out Taiwan flag emojis.

It's part and parcel of a globalized internet in which some shithole country can dictate what websites can upload worldwide because of blocking threats. Remember all those emails Null got over hosting a video banned in New Zealand?
 
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NerdShamer said:
So how will the online gaming part be enforced? Because whether you like it or not, you're going to get someone bitching at you.
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Say bye bye to voice chat, or they go the nintendo route and you have to get an app to communicate with friends only that needs to have your personal information.
 
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So are the tech giants going to make their own versions of their sites for these countries? Or is the EU going to try to force the US to get them to comply?

Because either one takes effort and time, and the US is not known for either when it comes to the internet.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
So are the tech giants going to make their own versions of their sites for these countries? Or is the EU going to try to force the US to get them to comply?

Because either one takes effort and time, and the US is not known for either when it comes to the internet.
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Remember that time Ubisoft tried to force the Chinese version of Rainbow Six Siege on everyone? Imagine that but without the majority getting mad.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
So are the tech giants going to make their own versions of their sites for these countries? Or is the EU going to try to force the US to get them to comply?

Because either one takes effort and time, and the US is not known for either when it comes to the internet.
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These effects are going to be global. The corps want this type of censorship anyways. Its just a good smokescreen to apply them.

At this point, I feel like the internet is going to crash. People will abandon it and stop socializing. You won't be able to say anything without a mob trying to cancel you or the website deleting your post because it it contains "harmful content".
 
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Is Section 230 applicable to companies outside the US? If not, could Facebook and Alphabet just uproot the Europe where they'll be allowed to do whatever.
 
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So are the tech giants going to make their own versions of their sites for these countries? Or is the EU going to try to force the US to get them to comply?

Because either one takes effort and time, and the US is not known for either when it comes to the internet.
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IIRC, Facebook already has their own UK site where the police used to arrest people for wrongthink.
 
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IIRC, Facebook already has their own UK site where the police used to arrest people for wrongthink.
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Someone got arrested for the heinous act of posting Snoop Dogg lyrics.
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This has happened a few times in the US. One guy got arrested for terrorist threats. He was quoting an Exodus song.
Seriously.
Even song lyrics can get you arrested if a Karen notices.
 
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All I want is for the main social media platforms, like the ones listed, to have to deal with the consequences of their bullshit. When they act like publishers, they get legally treated like publishers; when they're acting like a TV network, they get treated that way as well.

Currently, they take great advantage of not directly fitting into previous categories to get away with censorship, social control and news manipulation. My limited understanding is that the first step should just be enforcing laws already on the books, but I would be surprised if there were laws that really dealt with the behemoths of bullshit something like Twitter represents.

Until my utopian impossibility of huge corporations being held responsible for their actions even thinks of happening, though, I try and take small pleasure in anything minor that might thwart them, even a little.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
Sure, but they've also never supported any way to prevent it from happening, or to remedy the situation once it does inevitably happen.
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They way to prevent it is to not have a government capable of granting power and favors to whomever pays the most.

Perhaps an exercise in futility but there's not really a negative to have a smaller more limited federal government, with states having more power and cities having yet even more.

Many of the problems Null is having with the farms, specifically funding, is because there's a fuckton of regulations behind banking and money transferral and cutting many of them would allow a Kiwi Bank to take up the mantle of serving Josh.

But regulatory capture is a thing that not many people consider when they give daddy government power to "protect" consumers.
 
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