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> Think the Twitter files, with how the American government flags content on Twitter and then Twitter bans it Yes this is pretty much what it is, and now it is
by seydor 4y ago
> Think the Twitter files, with how the American government flags content on Twitter and then Twitter bans it
Yes this is pretty much what it is, and now it is a legal requirement, and the request by the government have to be prioritized and processed 'without delay'.
And if the government abuses the requests, then the website can complain to ... the government.
I don't understand why you think this is normal. it is not. This "government unable to stop itself" is precisely the reason why press freedom was written into constitutions
Much of EU doesn't rank low in corruption. What this means is, every 4 years the new government will be re-staffing the "national censorship service" (Digital Services Coordinator ) with its cronies. The countries which need free press the most will be affected for the worse
- Jensson 4y ago> Much of EU doesn't rank very low in corruption. What this means is, every 4 years the new government will be re-staffing the "national censorship service" with its cronies. But Google could challenge that to the EU court, and the EU court isn't full of Bulgarian cronies. Or do you think that the EU court would take the side of Bulgarian cronies, really? If Bulgaria wanted to censor the internet they would already have their own laws to do it. As you said, only extremely authoritarian countries censors the way you describe here, I doubt Bulgaria would get away with it, they would get kicked out of EU if they start to create a CCP style big brother state. (I used Bulgaria as an example since it is ranked the most corrupt country in EU)
- seydor 4y agoThere is no EU court, only national courts can refer a case to the ECJ for consultation. There is also no way to "kick a country out of EU" PS. You can't "force" anything to go to the ECJ, only national courts decide. EU law is integrated into local law
- Jensson 4y agoGoogle could just reject their requests and force them to go to EU court. The EU court is the only reason this law would have any more bite than a local law, without it you just have Bulgaria doing their own thing and they don't have enough weight to do that.
- Scarblac 4y agoThey would go to national court. EU directives are turned into national laws.
- majormajor 4y agoExpecting technology to fix - or even be immune from - preexisting corruption is just too idealistic. There's no silver bullet for changing how a collection of people behave in the way you want.