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Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by throw_m239339 »

Thaxll wrote: post #8
throwaway5959 wrote: post #2

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You should be thankful for the EU, they're at the forefront of good things for citizen. It's like California but 20 years ahead.

> You should be thankful for the EU, they're at the forefront of good things for citizen. It's like California but 20 years ahead.

There are a few good laws/directives regarding consumer protection, however, the EU is going nuts on internet surveillance and policing, resulting in absurd legislations that are going to hurt EU startups and IT businesses and their own citizen's freedoms IMHO.

Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by lakomen »

mwint wrote: post #3
throwaway5959 wrote: post #2

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I wish there was a way to unfuck the EU. It's turning into a totalitarian nightmare. Untouchable corrupt EC. Who are they to police what is and isn't right? It doesn't just concern Hamas, banning, no, censoring Russian media, previously COVID19, upload filters and artcile 13 (changed to 17) and the dubious votting, now this and chat control incoming.

And we, the citizens have no way to fight back.

That's not democracy.

Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

gumballindie wrote: post #11

Yeah the eu should really be worried. When masses of people have no shame or fear hiding sympathy for obviously terrorist actions then there’s a massive massive issue at hand and thats not a YouTube or tiktok video. Thats a power vacuum that will manifest itself in grotesque ways in the coming future. The dark forces to be are only beginning to realise it.

I don’t understand why there would be so many people in Europe that would “side” with Palestinians that this would be a problem.

Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

baggy_trough wrote: post #24

The Hamas content is valuable to show exactly what Hamas is. Censorship of this material is wrong.

I do think it strange just how much content there is in a week… compared to two years of the war in Ukraine.

I wonder if there is a cause and effect there?

Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by gumballindie »

megous wrote: post #20
gumballindie wrote: post #11

Yeah the eu should really be worried. When masses of people have no shame or fear hiding sympathy for obviously terrorist actions then there’s a massive massive issue at hand and thats not a YouTube or tiktok video. Thats a power vacuum that will manifest itself in grotesque ways in the coming future. The dark forces to be are only beginning to realise it.

In EU, and not worried at all by pro-Palestinian protests. Thank you.

Thats a dubious statement - I wrote about terrorist action sympathisers and you wrote about pro Palestine. Nonetheless people have died in france and the army is getting deployed while schools are getting closed in the uk and people told to hide their identity due to said terrorist action sympathisers - which btw have _nothing_ in common with plastine “freedom”.

Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by lakomen »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #21
Thaxll wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be thankful for the EU, they're at the forefront of good things for citizen. It's like California but 20 years ahead.

> You should be thankful for the EU, they're at the forefront of good things for citizen. It's like California but 20 years ahead. There are a few good laws/directives regarding consumer protection, however, the EU is going nuts on internet surveillance and policing, resulting in absurd legislations that are going to hurt EU startups and IT businesses and their own citizen's freedoms IMHO.

Already are hurting. Example PSD2, I can't automate checking bank transactions anymore without paying for a 3rd party.

I can't offer free webspace with ads or host anything free anymore because I'm now responsible if the user writes anything unlawful.

Just 2 things.

Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by charbroiled »

baggy_trough wrote: post #24

The Hamas content is valuable to show exactly what Hamas is. Censorship of this material is wrong.

Indeed. Consider this video, for example: https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1397186381756125184

This is certainly Hamas-created propaganda. I could see it inciting someone to join the cause. Yet it reveals that Hamas proudly digs up water pipes donated as humanitarian aid, to turn them into weapons of war. Is society better off if the government prevents this video from being shared?

Re: YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content

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Post by nine_k »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #5
mwint wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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If they ignore the EU, the EU actually gets a chance to home grow a competitor that can then challenge them internationally once it's had time to grow. Google would probably happily lose money to the EU every year to stop a native English baidu or yandex from being built.

Google has been supporting Russian language quite competently since early 2000s. Yandex still remained quite popular in Russia. Google has been supporting Czech reasonably, AFAICT, but Seznam stayed and stays popular in Czechia.

Google may seem to have secured an unassailable position as a search engine, but DuckDuckGo and Kagi somehow found success despite that, banking on Google's shortcomings.

If something holds back an appearance of a German-built or a French-built web search engine, it's likely not the Google's hegemony, and of course not a lack of scientific and engineering talent, but some other reasons.

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