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Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online (economist.com)
13 points by Swizec on Oct 16, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


No mention of UK laws that prescribe 10-15 year jail sentences for "repeated viewing of terrorist content" [1], or the German NetzDG [2] that gives companies 24 hours to delete "obviously illegal" content upon receiving a complaint ("illegal" includes hate speech), or risk a €5 million fine (which in practice means every complaint results in deletion, or a handful of mistakes bankrupt a company), or Facebook and Twitter censoring links to stories even in private messages between users [3].

I can appreciate that censorship is worse in the countries listed, but that is no reason to ignore what is happening in Western countries - I would expect at least a mention.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41479620

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act

[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cro...



Y'all can always move to America to avoid the next peasent revolt.




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