EU Forcing Social Media Companies to Censor “Hate Speech”

Elvis Dunderhoff January 22, 2025

The US could easily put pressure on Europe and force them to accept American standards for freedom of speech.

It would be very easy.

The only reason the EU is so strict about speech is because the US pressured them in the first place.

Reuters:

Meta’s Facebook, Elon Musk’s X, Google’s YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech under an updated code of conduct that will now be integrated into EU tech rules, the European Commission said on Monday.

Other signatories to the voluntary code set up in May 2016 are Dailymotion, Instagram, Jeuxvideo.com, LinkedIn, Microsoft hosted consumer services, Snapchat, Rakuten Viber, TikTok and Twitch.

“In Europe there is no place for illegal hate, either offline or online. I welcome the stakeholders’ commitment to a strengthened Code of conduct under the Digital Services Act (DSA),” EU tech commissioner Henna Virkkunen said in a statement.

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Under the revised code, the companies pledged to allow not-for-profit or public entities with expertise on illegal hate speech to monitor how they review hate speech notices, and to assess at least two thirds of these notices received from them within 24 hours.

More meaningful than banning trannies and DEI (which were already on their way out) would be if the Trump Administration forced the EU to respect American freedom of speech laws.

That’s probably not totally beyond the scope of things Trump would be willing to do. People would still get arrested in Europe for speech, of course, but he could prevent the EU from being able to fine American companies for allowing free speech.

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