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Good question, but no more than a local newspaper owned by an Australian: the company has a local subsidiary which is legally responsible. There’s been instance
by bertil 7y ago
Good question, but no more than a local newspaper owned by an Australian: the company has a local subsidiary which is legally responsible. There’s been instances where (Uber IIRC) country managers were jailed (for a day).
In general, legislation in Europe on elections is quite strict so it’s unlikely American more free approach to speech will be so strict it’s seen as an interference. For instance, a politician in France has been fined €15k for saying racist things once. With that, you have fewer “Mexico… they are rapists…” to deal with. Politics in Hungary, Poland, Italy might make that less true soon.
Outside of Europe, that’s more common and social media company routinely get into trouble for either censoring or permitting lèse-Majesté, Nobel-prize laureate defending ethnic cleansing, apostasy or defending lynching apostates. It’s a large part of local managers’ role to dance with absurd debates.