{"id":37408,"date":"2018-09-06T05:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37408"},"modified":"2018-09-06T05:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:55:46","slug":"eu-enters-final-stage-of-crafting-bill-forcing-big-tech-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37408","title":{"rendered":"EU Enters \u201cFinal Stage\u201d of Crafting Bill Forcing Big Tech Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EU Enters \u201cFinal Stage\u201d of Crafting Bill Forcing Big Tech Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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The European Union is in the final stages of crafting legislation that will force big tech and internet companies to censor \u201cextremist\u201d content\u00a0and cooperate with law enforcement, Reuters<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bill is expected to be released by the end of the month and will absolutely require companies such as\u00a0Google, Facebook, and Twitter to swiftly remove any content considered terroristic from their platforms.<\/p>\n

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EU Commissioner in charge of Justice, Consumers and gender equality, V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1 , speaks at a news conference on a second monitoring of the illegal online hate speech code of conduct in Brussels, Belgium, 1 June 2017. [Olivier Hoslet\/EPA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In March, the European Commission told such companies that they had three months to show they were removing \u201cextremist\u201d content more rapidly or face legislation forcing them to do so.EU recommendations were sent out at the time\u00a0regarding the speedy removal of all content\u00a0including terrorist content, incitement to hatred and violence, child sexual abuse material, counterfeit products, and copyright infringement.<\/p>\n

The threat eventually led to the creation of an online \u201ccode of conduct\u201d\u00a0aimed at fighting racism and xenophobia across Europe<\/a>, an effort both the EU and big tech collaborated on.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova, that an existing code of conduct to counter hate speech could remain voluntary.<\/p>\n

\u201c(But on) terrorist content, we came to the conclusion that it is too serious a threat and risk for European people that we should have absolute certainty that all the platforms and all the IT providers will delete the terrorist content and will cooperate with law enforcement bodies,\u201d Jourova said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, this is in the final stage,\u201d she added, addressing the new bill.<\/p>\n

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EU Enters \u201cFinal Stage\u201d of Crafting Bill Forcing Big Tech Censorship The European Union is in the final stages of crafting legislation that will force big tech and internet companies to censor \u201cextremist\u201d content\u00a0and cooperate with law enforcement, Reuters reports. The bill is expected to be released by the end of the month and will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9336,120,279,284,15463,15462],"class_list":["post-37408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-censorship","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-joseph-jankowski","tag-planet-free-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37409,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37408\/revisions\/37409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}