Loading ...EU Updates Digital Rules Requiring Big Tech To Allow ‘Reporters’ To Monitor Hate Speech
The EU says the move ensures “a safe digital space for all”, but critics say institutionalizing hate speech laws is a “fundamental attack on free speech”…
Under a revised code of conduct on online speech, the European Commission says that Big Tech signatories need to allow a network of “monitoring reporters” to regularly monitor hate speech notices.
Under the revised code, companies that are signed up must allow a network of “monitoring reporters” that are nonprofit or public entities with expertise on illegal hate speech to regularly monitor how the signatories are reviewing hate speech notices.
They will have to review at least two-thirds of hate speech notices received from monitoring reporters within 24 hours.
The EU said that the updated code of conduct, a voluntary instrument, builds on a 2016 code on “countering illegal hate speech online.”
If it looks like free speech censorship, walks like free speech censorship, acts like free speech censorship than it must be …….