New EU power to fine big tech billions in crackdown on hate speech, disinformation and harmful content
The new Digital Services Act will force companies including Facebook, Google, and Amazon to police themselves harder and make it easier for users to flag problems.
And as surely as night follows day, hate speech will eventually include strong personal criticism of senior EU bureaucrats.
Tech giants had been lobbying officials in Brussels to get them to water down the rules.
To enforce them, the European Commission is expected to hire more than 200 new staffers. To pay for it, tech companies will be charged a "supervisory fee," which could be up to 0.1% of their annual global net income, depending on the negotiations.
As for those 200 new staffers, we're back to another night follows day certainty, as we usually are with the EU. One day, a staff of 200 will be a distant memory.
4 comments:
I hate the effin EU. Nuke Bruxelles!
dearieme - yet people voted to stay in. Bonkers.
Makes a change from EU cracking up.
I saw a report about Germans fleeing to Paraguay because the green hordes invading and Green policies making life difficult. Probably impending EU problems will not be good for the Germans who lost a stable currency and gained a dodgy one and a whole heap of unsecured debtors.
Doonhamer - and Paraguay has no problem with its power supply, lots available from hydro.
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