The European Union is in the final stages of crafting legislation that will force Internet companies to censor extremist content and cooperate with law enforcement.
The bill is expected to be released by the end of the month and will absolutely require companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter to swiftly remove any suspicious content from their platforms.
EU recommendations were sent out at the time regarding the speedy removal of all content including terrorist content, incitement to hatred and violence, child sexual abuse material, counterfeit products, and copyright infringement.
The threat eventually led to the creation of an on-line “code of conduct” aimed at fighting racism and xenophobia across Europe, an effort both the EU and big tech collaborated on.
According to European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova, an existing code of conduct to counter hate speech could remain voluntary.
“(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.”
This means that European dictatorships will now operate without fear that their propaganda will be contradicted by the alternative media.
While details of the new legislation remain hidden, Financial Times in August learned that law enforcement will be in charge of flagging content for censorship.
EU security commissioner Julian King also had mentioned last month that the bill will “likely” turn the agreed upon “code of conduct” into mandatory law, placing the prediction by Jourova that it will remain voluntary on shaky grounds.
Within the code is a narrow explanation of “hate speech,” being defined as “all conduct publicly inciting to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, color, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.
The nature of enforcing censorship based on a narrow and subjective term such as hate speech is likely to keep suspicions high that these types of decision aren’t about creating a safer world, but rather a world in which superstates like the EU control the content people see on-line for political purposes.
Activist Post.com / ABC Flash Point Censorship News 2018.
Europe is just another Zio-Nazi organization following the Holocaust ruling?
Falsifying history and the present to gain control over the entire world population?
Now also Tik-Tok has been banned for US and EU politicians to use?