Tech Lobby Asks for EU Liability Cover to Tackle Hate Speech
- Companies risk legal liability for actively removing content
- Call comes as European Commission prepares digital policy
Platforms like Facebook and YouTube have come under intense scrutiny for failing to do enough to police hate speech.
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Big technology platforms are calling on the European Union to protect them from legal liabilities for removing hate speech and illegal content as government scrutiny over how platforms manage user posts grows worldwide.
A safeguard protecting companies that actively manage user posts would result in “better quality content moderation,” by incentivizing platforms to remove bad content while protecting free expression, Edima, an association representing Facebook Inc., ByteDance Ltd.-owned TikTok, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and others, said in a paper Monday.