LONDON: In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded anti-terrorism law. The Twitter accounts of German ...
LONDON: In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded anti-terrorism law.
The unintended consequences may be compounded as European governments pursue more laws and policies to restrict what communication can be shared online.Last month, Britain proposed appointing an internet regulator who would be empowered to block websites it considers harmful. The European Union is separately debating a law that would require tech companies to quickly remove terrorist-related content online.
New Zealand and Australia have put forward restrictions on tech companies after the March massacre of 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand, where the accused gunman used social media to amplify his message. Dimitris Avramopoulos, a European Commissioner pushing for stricter oversight of the internet, said government intervention was an appropriate response to how social media was being used to glorify terrorism, manipulate elections and spread hateful ideologies.
Rupp said the tweet was satire, an attempt to use the language of right-wing groups to show their cruelty.Rupp, who has more than 2,000 followers on Twitter, said he sent several emails to Twitter’s help line and pointed to his other tweets in which he voiced support for immigrants. In the face of political pressure to clean up their platforms, “the easier option is to take content down,” he said.It added, “regulation needs to strike an appropriate balance between keeping people safe online and preserving their inalienable human rights, and protecting the nature of a free, open internet.”Rupp’s experience has been echoed elsewhere, according to watchdog groups.
Since 2016, newspapers in Belgium and Italy have removed articles from their archives under the law. Google was also ordered last year to stop listing some search results, including information from 2014 about a Dutch doctor who The Guardian reported was suspended for poor care of a patient.
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