5.09.2019

Unintended consequences

Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it / Boing Boing


It's about to get much worse: in the wake of the Christchurch white terror attacks, the Australian government rushed through legislation requiring platforms to remove "terror" content within an hour (a deadline so short that it guarantees that there will be no serious checks undertaken before content is removed) and now both the EU and the UK are poised to follow suit.

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