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Upcoming European law – requires content blocks under 1 hour by police request (laquadrature.net)
6 points by internet_user on April 11, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This new regulation will force every actor of the Web’s ecosystem (video or blog platforms, online media, small forums or large social networks) to:

1) Block in under an hour any content reported as “terrorist” by the police (without a judge’s prior authorisation), and therefore to be on call 24/7.

2) Anticipate police requests by detecting on their own illicit content using automated filtering tools.

Websites that don’t respect these rules would risk a fine of up to 4% of their revenue.




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