EU's Top Court Just Made It Impossible to Run a User-Generated Platform Legally

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Court said the host has to :
  1- pre-check posts (i.e. do general monitoring)
  2- know who the posting user is (i.e. no anonymous speech)
  3- try to make sure the posts don’t get copied by third parties (um, like web search engines??)
  Basically, all three of those are effectively impossible.

  in my opinion : #3 effectively seems impossible, #2 is contrary to Lemmy’s philosophy and #1 would require a lot of community supervision … that would require a different Lemmy software.

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  • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    1 is impossible. You cannot screen every message sent, even screening every post would be a full time 24/7 job (3x full time moderators working in shifts).

    The big platforms will run it through a blackbox content moderator system, and lobby to keep fines minimal. Lemmy would be screwed.

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• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What are the implications for fediverse software hosted in the EU?

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  • misk@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No new impact, because the ruling is about online marketplaces, which pre-scan / moderate every new posting anyway due to multiple legal obligations that exist already. TechCrunch analysis says that the ruling is too broad and applies out of this context but I don’t see it there and the case they’re making isn’t very solid. I think they recognise this as an attack on how ad industry works because checking if the ad is legal before allowing it would be a huge boon to societies worldwide, but also an enormous cost for companies selling ad-spaces.

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