Oooooh SNAP!!!

[aruiz@mastodon.social]

@jeppe @ecomba @randahl sounds fair to me that an instance moderator has to comply with reasonable accountability laws for infrastructure that shapes society at large

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@ecomba @jeppe @randahl while I agree some things will get harder, I think part of the entire point of Mastodon and many other federated servers is that the content is not boosted algorithmically, but by users.

is best to have strong moderation, but unless the law is very sloppily written (a possibility, of course) I don't think it applies at all.

meanwhile hosting and boosting illegal content already has applicable laws (hence the adjective "illegal")

[olorinhenderson@noc.social]

@randahl

These are just comical, meaningless words, no? International law forbids this. We'll send emails to spam and letters to the shredder. Zero F given. Problem solved. 🙂

[outofprintarchive@retro.pizza]

@randahl

This really should be Europe wide thing.
It's way past due.

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@randahl unfortunately he will be in the list of new axis of evil made up by the Broligarchy... Come next election hope he id prepared to fight them as well as his opposition.

[human3500@ottawa.place]

@prefec2
Mastodon is, to my understanding, a protocol - not a platform. Think of it as http vs websites.

As for instances, many don't have executives i suspect.

Of course the law isn't written yet, so let's hope it's written well.
@jeppe @ecomba @randahl @androcat

[johan_barelds@mastodon.nl]

@randahl
BRAVO Spain!!! 💪💪

[johan_barelds@mastodon.nl]

@randahl
@bert_hubert Een mooie eerste regeringsraad voor het nieuwe kabinet Bert? 🤞

[prefec2@norden.social]

@human3500 @jeppe @ecomba @randahl @androcat

Indeed. It is too early to come up with a definitive answer. Regarding Mastodon, I assumed that the previous posts meant it as a platform. And I did not want to be nit-picky in general Mastodon is one kind of instances - there are other kinds, e.g. Pixelfed - that all form together the Fediverse. A federated platform (?) using where most instances use ActivityHub to communicate.

[hans@social.woefdram.nl]

@Randahl Fink Excellent! Let's hope Brussels pays attention and copies this idea 👍

[tijgertje1987@mastodon.online]

@randahl
I hope that they don’t try to break the general rule of “notice and take down”

That “rule” protects hosters, sites with community content, etc

In short: the site/instance/server/etc owner has no liability for what the users put on it.
UNTIL they get notified on it.

[randal_silversword@mastodon.social]

@randahl I'm packing my luggage and heading for spain...

[pattyhanson@mastodon.social]

@randahl

"Viva la España"🇪🇸

[lstn2urmama@mstdn.ca]

@randahl WONDERFUL FINALLY...someone is taking the bull by the horns !

[novanaturalist@mstdn.ca]

@randahl

"Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense [sic]."

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
💪👍💪👍👌

[novanaturalist@mstdn.ca]

@Lstn2urmama - my thoughts exactly.
@randahl

[adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social]

@Susan60 @randahl

So yeah about those ineffective bans on children...

https://gizmodo.com/spain-to-ban-under-16s-on-social-media-as-the-world-goes-all-in-on-age-verification-2000717515

[adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social]

@milesizdead @randahl @niksii

And it doesn't only punish the teens

"These restrictive mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They are tools of censorship [which] burden the expressive rights of adults and young people alike"

https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification

[karhutar@mastodon.social]

@randahl el tío tiene cojones

[adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social]

@xs4me2

Its not made so clear in the original post, but Sanchez plans to introduce age gating, and the E.U. definitely does not need more censorship, exclusion, identity theft, and handing over citizen's personal I.D.s and biometric data to foreign big tech companies! Spain is actually setting a very poor example here. But with countries like France and Denmark already doing the same, there is the danger the E.U. will move in this direction!

https://mastodon.social/@adamsaidsomething/116020559186143282

https://mastodon.social/@danielquinn/116024689741995144