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So underfunded and overworked EU agency is asked to manage reporting for poorly thought out and overly broad legislation. Maybe this is the best outcome as it might provide a valid defense for those who choose to ignore the notices.
Like engineers who have never underestimated their time commitments to a project, government agencies have never been overfunded.
It's very sad to see the path the EU has chosen to follow in regards to speech and the free flow of ideas.
Free speech is not unconditional in the US; there are many things that an American could say that would see them brought before the courts. European nations have simply drawn the line in a different place, for entirely understandable historical reasons.
It's very sad to see the path the EU has chosen to follow in regards to speech and the free flow of ideas.
It's a path that pre-dates the EU. We're a crowded continent with a huge amount of diversity and a long and bitter history of war. We have learned through bitter experience that, while free speech is a precious right, it is also an extremely dangerous one in the wrong circumstances. Germans in particular are acutely aware of the disastrous consequences of allowing incitement to go unchallenged. Free speech is not unc…
Such as when government is given too much power over it.
It's very sad to see the path the EU has chosen to follow in regards to speech and the free flow of ideas.
Hey, someone ought to start reporting EU sites as "terrorist content". Edit: Or better yet, report major MPAA members for copyright infringement, using spoofed accounts for other major MPAA members :)
It's very sad to see the path the EU has chosen to follow in regards to speech and the free flow of ideas.
It's a path that pre-dates the EU. We're a crowded continent with a huge amount of diversity and a long and bitter history of war. We have learned through bitter experience that, while free speech is a precious right, it is also an extremely dangerous one in the wrong circumstances. Germans in particular are acutely aware of the disastrous consequences of allowing incitement to go unchallenged. Free speech is not unc…
I'm sure sympathizing or trying to understand a terrorist's motives (perhaps their home country is being occupied by the US?) can fit under the terrorist content umbrella.
Edit: Let's not leave unaddressed the farcical idea that Europe prior to World War I was some bastion of free speech, and that this somehow led to the wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Germany#German_E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...
550 in the past week , not in total!
I guess someone put a test system on a live server? Doubth they have enough employees to have some just sit there filing takedown claims manually.