Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies
Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies
Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies::Law obliges social media platforms to remove illegal content – with fears that interview will give Russian leader propaganda coup
content that incites violence or hate speech from social media.
“They need to expeditiously remove content they are aware of if it is illegal.”
If a social media platform does not comply with the new EU law it can be sanctioned with a hefty fine
This essentially adds up to government proctorship of any "public forum" on the internet, including here... So if I randomly throw an "all lives matter" right here mid-comment, which while at face value is a ridiculously benign thing to say, can be and almost always is considered to be hate speech, lemmy is entirely obligated to immediately remove my comment or face heavy sanctions from the EU.
It's an extreme caricature of an example that I assume won't go anywhere, but the point is that it could, and the deciding factor on that isn't anyone here, the deciding factor is a bunch of rando EU officials... If some Karen in Wales in the right position decides she doesn't like my comment, she could initiate a "hefty" fine against lemmy admins.
It's an absurd concept, and I don't say that in the context of tuker Carlson (who I simply don't give two shits about in any context), I say that in the context of us, as a "social media" community. We are subject to this proctorship, this censorship...
Minor point, but Wales isn't in the EU.
Karens in Wales: I did what??
Doesn't apply here, Lemmy is way too tiny. The law only applies the largest platforms. Reddit doesn't even qualify. Of course maybe that changes someday, but currently the law applies to 19 sites.
It depends on the legislation on where the instance is hosted and/or personal liability of its operator. As a content contributor (if identifiable) you can be also personally liable. In practice you can host an instance anonymously, using bulletproof hosting and don't care for much for such things.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The EU’s far-reaching new laws to regulate tech companies including X and Facebook will face their first big test on Thursday night when former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin is aired in the US.
The interview has raised concerns within the EU that it will be used as part of Putin’s wider “information war”, with the likelihood that clips would spread across social media, particularly on Elon Musk’s X platform, providing the Russian leader with a propaganda coup.
However, at the daily press conference of the European Commission officials made clear that X and other platforms would be obliged to remove illegal content under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, which came into force last year.
“This is a new law; we have never been here before,” said one insider, adding there had not been any contact with Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg of Meta relating to the interview as the onus was entirely theirs to operate legally in the EU.
The foreign affairs spokesperson pointed out that Putin and a wide network of oligarchs and other associates had already been issued with sanctions in the EU but said there had been “no discussion” of doing the same with Carlson, as had been suggested by some, over the interview.
Carlson is a former Fox News host, a key ally of 2024 election candidate Donald Trump, and a vocal opponent to US military aid for Ukraine.
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The guy spent two hours giving a lecture on Russian history, lol.
The problem is that whatever careful process EU implements to restrict spread of fake news etc., authoritarian states will copy its facade and terminology, to justify their own censorship of real news ( in Russia people go to prison for calling a war a war).
I wonder..
By his own legal admission, he's not a journalist but an entertainer.
Thus what he's doing with Putin is entertainment.
So he's dealing with Russia (literally) and Russian companies to produce a profit making entertainment content.
Russia is under sanctions.
Isn't he breaking the law?
L it seems like he is.
He also looks like an undeclared Russian agent.
Is that the kind of society we want to be? Where a private individual or organization cannot go to another country to interview a world leader?
What happened to freedom of expression and freedom of movement? Are we going to go back to the Iron Curtain? Are we going to totally disconnect so that the only news we ever see is from "approved sources"?
This is a dangerous path to go down.
Tucker Carlson is a con-man, but if our citizens want to watch him - don't they have the right?
He should.not be platformed. either of them
There is a line. Putin may be the closest thing we've had to actual Hitler in the modern era, in his actions and his aspirations, but maybe the difference is that he doesn't have IBM making him efficient and his "opponent" has the early support of a superpower in the US.
Your sentiments are generally true, but there's a limit, and especially during an open conflict like this. He's a dictator that has his friends pushed out of Windows when they no longer serve his need. He's also been caught leading coordinated efforts to taint the results of American elections. You don't platform this, as an American.
Freedom has limits among adults. You're not allowed to own a tank and drive it to the grocery store, you can't manufacture and sell heroin as a private citizen. There are some limits we agree to.
The fact you have 30 downvotes is horrifying. This community is nothing but a bunch of authoritarians who openly reject liberal ideals like free speech and democracy. They hate Putin so much because he reflects so many of their values.
Journalists can do it and private citizens can, he shouldn't be allowed he's an entertainer with a very vocal fringe movement behind him supporting a sanctioned war criminal.