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Things like "fairness" aren't defined in the legislation and will be determined in smoke filled rooms by shadowy moneyed interests. Ordinary users will get cen
by otherotherchris 4y ago
Things like "fairness" aren't defined in the legislation and will be determined in smoke filled rooms by shadowy moneyed interests.
Ordinary users will get censored. By the courts, by unelected regulators, and by Big Tech AI zealously nuking content to avoid arbitrary fines. It's content ID on steroids.
- jasfi 4y agoI agree that it could get out of hand. We'll have to wait and see how it turns out. Since this is an EU law I wonder if it applies to content hosted on EU servers only, or any content that shows up in their users' results.
- otherotherchris 4y agoPlatforms are responsible for everything shown to a user inside the EU. I suspect that Google and Facebook will not offer country specific blocklists like they do for Nazi content in Germany. If Hungary bans LGBTQIA content, it'll disappear in France. Europe can then have an argument about how they "really really not really" believe in free speech.
- jasfi 4y agoI am worried about the term "disinformation" since that can be really subjective. On the other hand anti-vax content is harmful, to me, so there's no easy answer.
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- anothernewdude 4y agoIf they do business in the EU. Otherwise this is without teeth entirely.
- barrucadu 4y agoI mean, yes? That seems obvious? EU law applies to companies which operate in the EU.