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The Digital Berlin Wall: How Germany (Accidentally) Created a Prototype for Global Online Censorship – Act 2

29 Sep 2020

The removal of content within the sphere of prohibiting hate speech increased to 4,1 million in the first quarter of 2019 and 9,6 million in the first quarter of 2020. [...] 84 In the Austrian government’s submission of the bill to the European Commission, the representation noted that the ongoing consultation process in relation to legislation at a European level will take some time and thus, “it is necessary – based on the experience of the German and French initiatives – to take legal measures, as soon as possible.”85 The Austrian Justice Minister Alma Zadić expres. [...] The bill seeks to amend the provisions of the ”Kenya Information and Communications Act” through the introduction of stringent regulations on the use of social media in Kenya. [...] However, reports suggest that the Government is keen on releasing them only after the provisions of India’s new Data Protection law are.103 Malaysia In December 2019, the ”Ant-Fake News Act” was finally repealed by the lower house of the Malaysian parliament.104 Vietnam A senior representative of the Ministry of Information and Communications announced that following the passing of the Cybersecuri. [...] It underlined that the burden of content analysis is placed solely on the private companies, without the involvement of a judge and that the timeframe given, at the threat of heavy penalties, is too short.107 ”This infringement [to freedom of expression] would also be disproportionate insofar as the shortness of the time allowed to the operators to proceed with this withdrawal, coupled with the di.

Authors

Søren Brunø Staghøj

Pages
31
Published in
Denmark

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