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
#2france is such a weird place. In some ways it's a very free society. In other ways it's not free at all. Don't most of the euro countries have weird laws about hate speech like this?
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#3'There are multiple levels of fines. It starts at hundreds of thousand of euros but it can reach up to 4% of the global annual revenue of the company with severe cases. The Superior Council of the Audiovisual (CSA) [0] is the regulator in charge of those cases.
'Germany has already passed similar regulation and there are ongoing discussions at the European Union level.'
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#4france is such a weird place. In some ways it's a very free society. In other ways it's not free at all. Don't most of the euro countries have weird laws about hate speech like this?
In which ways is it "very free"? (not necessarily doubting you, but it does seem like I often hear of multitude ways they don't even have freedom of speech)
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#5france is such a weird place. In some ways it's a very free society. In other ways it's not free at all. Don't most of the euro countries have weird laws about hate speech like this?
I don't know where you're from but I'm sure I could find weirdness there, just like everywhere.
That said, this law is heavily criticized at the moment, for good reasons.
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#6france is such a weird place. In some ways it's a very free society. In other ways it's not free at all. Don't most of the euro countries have weird laws about hate speech like this?
They don't have a US style foundation of Freedom of Speech.
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#7Good. I would much rather have a good amount of censorship then let bigots hide behind the “free speech” argument.
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#8france is such a weird place. In some ways it's a very free society. In other ways it's not free at all. Don't most of the euro countries have weird laws about hate speech like this?
Are you really free if Jack Dorsey gets to decide what you're allowed to tweet?
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#9But what in case of the abuse of the system? Administrators will end up deleting whatever is reported. Not to mention it can be used in political fight.
Re: France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
#10But what in case of the abuse of the system? Administrators will end up deleting whatever is reported. Not to mention it can be used in political fight.
there are things in it to punish people abusing the system too