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The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Freedom Of Speech
Cam Wilson
Certain platforms might take down your homemade pornography, or censor your conspiracist podcast, but in countries like Australia, the U.S. and most of Europe, the internet is a fairly open place. As long as what you’re peddling isn’t actively illegal – or as long as you’re not peddling illegal wares…
Germany’s parliament passed a law on Friday that forces social media sites to quickly take down illegal and slanderous content or face a fine of €50 million ($74.3 million). The new rule affects Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites with more than two million users.
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to create an algorithm to filter out abusive and hateful language during a company-sponsored Q&A with President Obama in 2015 according to a Buzzfeed report.
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