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Europe: ARTICLE 19 and the Digital Markets Act debate
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Today, ARTICLE 19 alongside Amnesty International, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Civil Liberties Union for Europe and the Open Society European Policy Institute submitted their response to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications’ (BEREC) public consultation on its Draft Report on ex ante regulation of digital gatekeepers. We support BEREC’s calls to incorporate into the Digital Markets Act (DMA) reinforced measures to strengthen competition among gatekeeping platforms and to better protect end-users’ rights. We also support the call to guarantee the openness principle throughout the digital environment, and to have open-internet type requirements for the application layer, in addition to the network layer, in order to avoid bottleneck power over the access to content and applications. We make additional proposals on ho
New online EU terror law is censorship, warn rights groups
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The European Parliament has approved a EU regulation against terrorist content online. It allows one EU state to ask another to remove content hosted in another. But European Digital Rights, Access Now, the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, and other NGOs say the new rules amount to censorship. Somebody like Viktor Orban could ask for the removal of content uploaded in another country because it criticises his government, said Liberties.
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EU OKs law to make tech companies take down terrorist content in less than an hour
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The European Union announced today that it has approved a law to require technology platforms to flag and take down terrorist-related within one hour or face hefty fines.
“The new regulation will target content such as texts, images, sound recordings or videos, including live transmissions, that incite, solicit or contribute to terrorist offenses, provide instructions for such offenses or solicit people to participate in a terrorist group,” the EU said in a press release.
It won’t happen immediately, since the law first must be written into the EU’s official journal. It will then be applied 12 months after the entry, and subsequently, each member will have to adopt it.
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29 April 2021
by eub2 last modified 29 April 2021
EU regulation against terrorist content online (TERREG) was approved without a final vote by the European Parliament on April 29th. The regulation will harm our ability to freely express ourselves and access information online.
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On 29 April, the Regulation on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online was approved without a final vote, concluding the last step of the European Union legislative process before the measures it contains can come into effect.
The procedure for the second reading excluded elected representatives from the final decision over this human rights intrusive legislation. It deprived EU citizens from seeing if the Members of the European Parliament, the only democratically elected body of the EU would have accepted a 1-hour removal deadline for content, forcing platforms to use content filtering, and empowering state authorities to enable censorship.