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Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted

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Re: Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted

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Post by gambiting »

hartator wrote: post #80
gambiting wrote: post #66

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Are you.....under the impression that French laws apply in all of EU or something?

It’s actually how the EU mostly work. Country members do still most of law and merge upstream. GDPR for example originated from the CNIL which is French. And contain things that restrict freedom of speech at an EU level. [1] [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/eu-alphabet-privacy-idCNL5N2...

No it isn't. Not in the slightest sense, I have no idea where you're getting your info from, that's literally not how the EU lawmaking works.

Re: Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted

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Post by thrillgore »

deceptionatd wrote: post #79
thrillgore wrote: post #77

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Seeing a lot of the replies here focus on the EU's prevalence of anti-hate speech laws, there's clearly one genus of the audience that sees the EU as being "restrictive" on their kind of free speech. Which is not surprising in the least. As an American, I see nothing wrong with the EU's measures against hate speech. In the past decade, I've seen exactly where no limits on it leads to.

My rule of thumb for evaluating laws: what could the most malicious person you can imagine do with that power? 'Hate speech' is a highly subjective category, and most proposals for hate speech laws that I've seen could be abused terribly.

And my response to that is: Laws and decrees have to be written in what manner they can oppress the least, but its on the public to hold the right people accountable so these laws remain fair.
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