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France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Post by foota »

Balgair wrote: post #81
AlchemistCamp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

France is a medium-sized market, roughly equivalent to California—much smaller than the US, China or Japan, but larger than many countries.

Unless the market size for a population is not proportional to that population, then I'm missing something. France is ~67 million people. California is ~40 million people. There are ~330 million US citizens. So France is ~double California and ~ a fifth of the US.

It depends on what kind of market you're in. California is extremely high income relative to France (or pretty much any country) and so you're likely to see more revenue from there.

Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Post by [deleted] »

dogma1138 wrote: post #73
trianglem wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s simple. You’re not free to be intolerant. What is intolerant? Anything that involves biological differences that people are unable to change.

So by that definition it’s ok to make fun of fat people because they can go on a diet and hit the gym?

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Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Post by fooker »

Balgair wrote: post #81
AlchemistCamp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

France is a medium-sized market, roughly equivalent to California—much smaller than the US, China or Japan, but larger than many countries.

Unless the market size for a population is not proportional to that population, then I'm missing something. France is ~67 million people. California is ~40 million people. There are ~330 million US citizens. So France is ~double California and ~ a fifth of the US.

>Unless the market size for a population is not proportional to that population

It's not. US Population is maybe ~1/4th of India. Apple has a huge market in the US and is relatively niche in India.

Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

Balgair wrote: post #81
AlchemistCamp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

France is a medium-sized market, roughly equivalent to California—much smaller than the US, China or Japan, but larger than many countries.

Unless the market size for a population is not proportional to that population, then I'm missing something. France is ~67 million people. California is ~40 million people. There are ~330 million US citizens. So France is ~double California and ~ a fifth of the US.

I was speaking of the relative sizes of the economies, not the populations.

Both France and California have a GDP of about 2.7 trillion USD. Interestingly, India's GDP is also at about this level.

Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Post by trianglem »

dogma1138 wrote: post #73
trianglem wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s simple. You’re not free to be intolerant. What is intolerant? Anything that involves biological differences that people are unable to change.

So by that definition it’s ok to make fun of fat people because they can go on a diet and hit the gym?

Yes

Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Post by adinisom »

akersten wrote: post #57
qball wrote: post #34

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>there are ongoing discussions at the European Union level I suspect that if the EU really does implement this, the US will likely make it against US law to obey media censorship requests from other countries against speech that the First Amendment protects. They probably should have done that a little while ago (curating content under the request of a foreign government should be one of those things that revoke your…

It is not constitutional for the US to make it illegal to remove content. Regardless of why you would remove it. The 1st Amendment cuts both ways there - you can't be punished for removing something from your billboard. That's your freedom as a US entity to decide what you express. The reasoning behind why you removed content (a violation of your website's terms, a request from a foreign government, contractual oblig…

Removing content when you don't want but are required to do so seems like non-free expression. Although it might be difficult to distinguish between content being removed due to legal requirements vs just not wanting to host the content.

Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours

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Post by centimeter »

Balgair wrote: post #81
AlchemistCamp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

France is a medium-sized market, roughly equivalent to California—much smaller than the US, China or Japan, but larger than many countries.

Unless the market size for a population is not proportional to that population, then I'm missing something. France is ~67 million people. California is ~40 million people. There are ~330 million US citizens. So France is ~double California and ~ a fifth of the US.

You must take into account that France is relatively poor compared to America.
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