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The EU giveth (removable batteries, mandated USB-C) and it taketh away
So it’s the “We can take down what we don’t like”-Act
Oh God no, the horror that the EU could remove content that promotes hatred!
The problem is usually in the broadness of the definition. Less democratic regimes can easily use this to forbid material about opposing views and parties. Double-edged sword.
Cant less democratic regimes do that anyway?
I think the problem is that social media has been used for great evil so an attempt to curb that is good.
At least it’s a democratic body. Way better than Musk being in capricious control of deleting speech rights.
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This law goes both ways. Left or right, extremism comes from every side.
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No better source than Al-Jazeera?
Genuinely ignorant, what wrong with Al-Jazeera? Sure, it’s biased on some topics, but aren’t all news sources?
Not too shabby! Seems like the laws at least have some teeth.
Wish GDPR had the same kind of teeth.
It does, mostly. Fines go up to 4% or global revenue (not profits, revenue!) for large companies. The thing is, those fines are reserved only for the worst cases, and not even Facebook has managed to be bad enough to get fined for the full 4%.
In theory a GDPR fine for a megacorporation could be tens of billions of euros. In practice it’s hard to prove to the judge that a company deserves a fine that high.