https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireS ... t-57768368
European authorities are planning to slap internet companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook with big fines if they don't take down extremist content within one hour.
Removing material within an hour is important because it's "the critical window in which the greatest damage is done."
Under the proposal, internet companies would have to take measures, including installing automated systems, to prevent content from being re-uploaded after being removed the first time. Companies that fail to comply would face fines of up to 4 percent of their annual global turnover.
For Google, which owns YouTube, that could amount to as much as $4.4 billion, based on parent company Alphabet Inc.'s $110.9 billion in revenue for 2017.
Now we know that social media is a propaganda tool for a number of political organizations, as well as the main source of information for some population. Fake news can be a time bomb.
Further reading :
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/ ... 20394.html
EU to give internet firms 1 hour to remove extremist content
EU to give internet firms 1 hour to remove extremist content
Last edited by labbe5 on Mon 01 Oct 2018, 17:46, edited 1 time in total.
Hi labbe5.
I could not find the expression "time bomb" in the ABC article, so it is a
comment by you, yes?
Very strange comment. I suppose that by contrast, real news are bombs
that go off immediately?
May I suggest that this metaphor is in very bad taste?
Respectfully.
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@all:
If anybody has the patience to let the video load, here is the "official"
speech by J.-C. Juncker : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dLDF0LRuZs
This 55 minutes video of Mr. Juncker's speech is still trying to load on my
machine after 10 minutes, so I have not viewed it. Maybe you have to be
from Europe to view it? Bah.
BFN.
I could not find the expression "time bomb" in the ABC article, so it is a
comment by you, yes?
Very strange comment. I suppose that by contrast, real news are bombs
that go off immediately?
May I suggest that this metaphor is in very bad taste?
Respectfully.
~~~
@all:
If anybody has the patience to let the video load, here is the "official"
speech by J.-C. Juncker : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dLDF0LRuZs
This 55 minutes video of Mr. Juncker's speech is still trying to load on my
machine after 10 minutes, so I have not viewed it. Maybe you have to be
from Europe to view it? Bah.
BFN.
musher0
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)