The alternative is moderation only on content (CP for example) and not on speech (save for crimes like death threats and so on).
The more you censor speech the more radicalized people become against the system setting that censorship. It becomes a self perpetuating feedback loop.
> and not on speech save for crimes(death threats and so on).
Dealing with speech that is, actively encourages, or supports (or engenders fear of in potential victims)¹, such crimes, is exactly what this is trying to get the companies to address.
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[1] That list being the battery/assault/affray equivalents of hate speech
The alternative is moderation only on content (CP for example) and not on speech (save for crimes like death threats and so on).
The more you censor speech the more radicalized people become against the system setting that censorship. It becomes a self perpetuating feedback loop.
> and not on speech save for crimes(death threats and so on).
Dealing with speech that is, actively encourages, or supports (or engenders fear of in potential victims)¹, such crimes, is exactly what this is trying to get the companies to address.
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[1] That list being the battery/assault/affray equivalents of hate speech
>could directly lead to
"Could lead to" is a slippery slope to censoring free speech or even to a Minority Report style of enforcing crimes before they happen.
The EU already tried dozens of times to ban encrypted chat on the same kind of fearmongering, now they're boiling the frog on free speech.
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really? how often this has happeden from internet writings?
and how many times has happened actual crimes that eu politicans have been lately hiding ?
Mastodon is federated, like email so censorship is more difficult as you can switch servers.