Buongiorno,

https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-fined-100000-euro-after-german-court-rejects-its-misinformation-excuse-for-deleting-anti-lockdown-protest-video/

«YouTube fined 100,000 Euro after German court rejects its
“misinformation” excuse for deleting anti-lockdown protest video»

Author: Didi Rankovic
Date: lun, 12 lug 2021 19:26:01 CEST

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[...] Regardless of the amount in question, which appears to be the
highest on record in Germany but is insignificant to Google’s
trillion-dollar business – the lawyer for the operator of the channel
that was subjected to censorship, Joachim Steinhofel, put the stress in
his comments on the legal precedent here, calling the ruling “historic”
– because YouTube has to comply with court decisions regardless of
whether or not it thinks its own “community guidelines” had been
violated.

Unlike in the US, where Big Tech’s right to censor speech is granted to
them as private internet operators, it seems that Europeans are ready to
stop playing by those rules and start imposing their own laws.

The Dresden court did not accept YouTube’s explanation that the Covid
protest video had to be removed based on the company’s “medical
misinformation policy.” This new policy, introduced at the start of
wide-spread coronavirus (mis)information suppression on major social
networks, at the time wasn’t even properly incorporated into YouTube’s
own rules that form a “contract” with channel owners.

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Saluti, Giovanni.

-- 
380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego)

«Noi, incompetenti come siamo,
 non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché»

Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts.  Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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