The European Union really wants tech companies to get their bull together when it come to police content on their platform . On Thursday , itissued novel guidelinesfor how companies like Twitter , Google , and Facebook should handle illegal content on its European websites : quickly , proactively , and with human lapse .
The European Commission , the EU ’s executive body , recommended that technical school companies scrub any illegal cognitive content — including terrorist material , child pornography , and hate speech — from their platforms within an hr of it being reported by constabulary enforcement official . Additionally , the Commission said it would like to see greater use of both “ proactive measures , including automate espial ” and humans supervisors “ to avoid unintended or erroneous removal of cognitive content which is not illegal . ”
It ’s worth punctuate these guidelines are strictly guidelines — for now . Tech companies are not legally bound by the Modern recommendations , but the Commission has vowed to supervise their effect and drop the hammering with “ necessary lawmaking ” if they fail to see the desire results .
And this is n’t the first time the Commission has tried to jeopardize technical school giants with non - binding recommendations . In September of last year , it released guidelines for Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , and Microsoft that outlined ways in which the companies can substantially break up down on illegal hate speech . And in December of 2016 , it dragged these same companies for not effectively complying with a computer code of deportment they sign up in May of that twelvemonth , which cheer them to handle illegal hate language within 24 hours .
give that a voluntary agreement to remove vile content within 24 hours proved futile , it ’s unclear why technical school house would now , out of the good of their hearts , abide by with the one - 60 minutes recommendation . The Commission ( like the platforms themselves ) seems to be betting big on automation .
Still , there is definitely a demand for tech companies to act with a greater sense of urgency — an hour on the internet can be like a lifetime — and it ’s better to have a propose sentence limit point than simply hold off for companies to oppose to public pressure .
[ The Wall Street Journal ]
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