Now thought crime is costing you money

[DrZoidberg]

European social media platforms will now be faced with a fine if they don't remove terrorist propaganda fast enough. Paying people to monitor this ain't gonna happen. Because the business model requires automation. How many thinks that now discussing terrorism at all will lead to the content being removed?

So what happens with mislabeled terrorist videos with a low number of viewers? They can linger for quite a while before anybody at all finds them and reports them.

And obviously terrorists will develop newspeak and keeping talking about this stuff with zero repurcussions. So the end result will be you needing to pay for bullshit fines, for no reason.

Yay... they really thought this one through.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45247169

Here's the European Commission press release. Notice how they don't waste time explaining how terrorist propaganda leads to terrorism. Here's what I think... it doesn't. I've seen plenty of this stuff, yet, I'm somehow still not an ISIS supporter. I don't think I'm special. I think these videos radicalise people because the arguments are convincing to some people. People and information have a way of finding eachother. In the post Internet world, trying to limit the medium by which information is spread is a waste of time.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-1169_en.htm

I think this is all bad. I don't think there's anything positive about this.

And remember kids, if you don't support this fine... you are FOR terrorism! Yay... freedom.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Here's the European Commission press release. Notice how they don't waste time explaining how terrorist propaganda leads to terrorism. Here's what I think... it doesn't.

I think these videos radicalise people because the arguments are convincing to some people.

??? Those two statements contradict each other.

In the post Internet world, trying to limit the medium by which information is spread is a waste of time.

Trying to eliminate it on the Internet is a waste of time. Attempting to prohibit such content on popular social media ports is not a waste of time. Let me make an analogy using Nazis...

... kidding.

You can't stop the signal from getting onto the Internet, but you don't have to allow for the message to be found so easily. There are people that are susceptible to propaganda. If these people don't stumble onto it, they remain susceptible... not radicalized. That is a win.

I think this is all bad. I don't think there's anything positive about this.

And remember kids, if you don't support this fine... you are FOR terrorism! Yay... freedom.

That is what a Nazi would say...

Damn it! I did it again. Propaganda supporting terrorism is content that would be clearly against the terms and conditions of social media platform. In general, the EU had allowed self-policing, but that hasn't worked well enough. So they have moved to fines to emphasize expediency. The actual rules haven't changed, just the attempt to enforce them.

What I wonder is how is this enforced, other than after the fact? How can the EU even know if social media platforms aren't doing it quick enough?

 

[Keith&Co.]

I expect it'll be a pendulum, just like sex.
They legislate against any graphic portrayal of sex, and they end up blocking breast cancer self-checks.
They legislate against pedophile images and suddenly that cliché you took of your kid, bare on a bearskin rug is sanctioned.

The Navy cracks down on drugs and drug-related paraphernalia, someone goes to mast for owning a CO with the song 'Cocaine' on it.

It's a common theme in enforcement. Zero tolerance, a concern that we're overreacting, then too loose, then tightening, then back again. So it'll coast us money, but maybe we can win a wrongful action lawsuit and get oodles of money back, while helping to calibrate the system for future enforcement?

 

[DrZoidberg]

What I wonder is how is this enforced, other than after the fact? How can the EU even know if social media platforms aren't doing it quick enough?

The only method I can think of is that a users screenshots and reports it to the police, and then they go and check for themselves. Or they're given several reports at different times, and there's enough time between the reports to count as evidence.

Because it's not like the cops don't already have enough to do