Re Europe to Facebook and Google: Remove Illegal Content in One Hour (We're Serious This Time!)

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Stefano Quintarelli <stefano () quintarelli it>
Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] Europe to Facebook and Google: Remove Illegal Content in
One Hour (We're Serious This Time!)
To: <dave () farber net>


Dave,

IMHO a fundamental issue is a fast appeal process to have content
promptly reinstated.

I am aware there are some thoughts on this in the Commission

ciao, s.

On 01/03/2018 18:24, Dave Farber wrote:
> Europe to Facebook and Google: Remove Illegal Content in One Hour (We're
> Serious This Time!)
https://gizmodo.com/europe-to-facebook-and-google-remove-illegal-content-i-1823423146
>   Europe to Facebook and Google: Remove Illegal Content in One Hour
>   (We're Serious This Time!)
>
> Melanie Ehrenkranz <//kinja.com/melaniehannah>Today 11:10am
> <
https://gizmodo.com/europe-to-facebook-and-google-remove-illegal-content-i-1823423146
> Photo: Getty
>
> The European Union really wants tech companies to get their shit
> together when it comes to policing content on their platforms. On
> Thursday, it issued new guidelines
> <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-1169_en.htm> for how
> companies like Twitter, Google, and Facebook should handle illegal
> content on its European websites: quickly, proactively, and with human
> oversight.
>
> The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, recommended that tech
> companies scrub any illegal content—including terrorist material, child
> pornography, and hate speech—from their platforms within an hour of it
> being reported by law enforcement officials. Additionally, the
> Commission said it would like to see greater use of both “proactive
> measures, including automated detection” and humans supervisors “to
> avoid unintended or erroneous removal of content which is not illegal.”
>
> It’s worth emphasizing these guidelines are strictly guidelines—for now.
> Tech companies are not legally bound by the new recommendations, but
> the Commission has vowed to monitor their effect and drop the hammer
> with “necessary legislation” if they fail to see the desired results.
>
> And this isn’t the first time the Commission has tried to threaten tech
> giants with non-binding recommendations. In September of last year
> <
https://gizmodo.com/eu-issues-strongest-warning-yet-demanding-tech-companie-1818967430#_ga=2.206774483.192928274.1519736244-774642885.1491417459
> ,
> it released guidelines for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft
> that outlined ways in which the companies can better crack down on
> illegal hate speech. And in December of 2016
> <
https://gizmodo.com/eu-to-facebook-and-twitter-crack-down-on-hate-speech-1789668384#_ga=2.241378754.192928274.1519736244-774642885.1491417459
> ,
> it dragged these same companies for not effectively complying with a
> code of conduct they signed in May of that year, which urged them to
> handle illegal hate speech within 24 hours.
>
> Given that a voluntary agreement to remove vile content within 24 hours
> proved futile, it’s unclear why tech firms would now, out of the
> goodness of their hearts, comply with the one-hour recommendation. The
> Commission (like the platforms themselves) seems to be betting big on
> automation.
>
> Still, there is definitely a need for tech companies to act with a
> greater sense of urgency—an hour on the internet can be like a
> lifetime—and it’s better to have a proposed time limit than simply wait
> for companies to react to public pressure.
>
> [The Wall Street Journal
> <
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-google-get-one-hour-from-eu-to-scrub-illegal-content-1519906316
> ]
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