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The Digital Services Act is supposed to provide some legal recourse, at least in the European Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act https://
by Nemo_bis 4y ago
The Digital Services Act is supposed to provide some legal recourse, at least in the European Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act
https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fails/ https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fails/
However, ask the politicians at the European Commission, and they will boast that it is about this:
> By summer 2023, the first very concrete effects of the #DSA will be visible for all users. This includes: Accessible "button" to easily flag illegal content
https://nitter.it/ThierryBreton/status/1592856203935510528#m https://nitter.it/ThierryBreton/status/1592856203935510528#m
Which just happens to be what the reviewer was complaining about (ways to report "objectionable content").
- solarkraft 4y agoThe EU is in a weird place. They seem to be genuinely motivated by "individual rights", but with more of a focus on harassment rather than freedom of expression, so they usually err on the side of over-enforcement (of censoring rules, etc), since they're so used to the under-enforcement of the past.