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There are fears among IP owners that the pending GDPR in Europe will make it difficult to track down infringers online, undoing years of good work by the Whois system. Alexander Heirwegh of law firm Petillion reports.
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That they have to adhere to gdpr, uk's gdpr, that is, they are a global company and that the consequences can be horrific when it comes to human rights abuses, when we see this platform used in ways that enable cyber mobs and genocide. so, you know, i think they get it. they used to get it, though we can't be sure, of course, what this looks like going forward. so i think on the one hand, we're going to see either them put out of business because the european and other governments are going to come sit on them hard for, you know, for speech violations that are relevant in their own countries. ...
So i suspect i don't know. really how carefully twitter will be thinking about it, given that actually that's a broader problem across us tech. i and danielle, we shouldn't forget i mean, the investment from the saudis predates elon musk. these kind of contradictions aren't actually new to twitter. you've advised them for over a decade. how seriously do you think the company took the question of free speech and protecting their users previously? based on what you've already said, i would say you think quite strongly. quite seriously. and of course, you know, twitter signed a memo of understand...
That the european commission would define it, which is quite broadly speech that demeans and denigrates people based on their group membership, you know, specific, sensitive protected groups. and so i do think they sort of understood that they were a global business, that the eu was coming for them, that germany would be coming for them, that they have to adhere to gdpr, uk's gdpr, that is, they are a global company and that the consequences can be horrific when it comes to human rights abuses, when we see this platform used in ways that enable cyber mobs and genocide. so, you know, i think th...