EU Approves Billions In Fines For Google And Facebook If Terrorist Content Not Removed

European Union flags fly at half mast in Brussels in December 2018, after a shooting incident close to the historic Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg.proposals for"tough new measures to ensure the U.K. is the safest place in the world to be online," claiming these to be the world's"first online safety laws." The U.K.

The risk for social media is that"companies that systematically and persistently fail to abide by the law may be sanctioned with up to 4% of their global turnover." Their let-off is that"they will not be generally obliged to monitor the information they transmit or store, nor have to actively seek facts indicating illegal activity."The proposal, passed by 308 votes to 204 , is not yet in final form.

Yes and I see Twitter pulls my best tweets of so no one sees them. Ones where I am telling it like it is. We know whose side they are on. The FAR LEFT.

Who decides what's terrorist content ?

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