The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated con…
The Court said the host has to :
1- pre-check posts (i.e. do general monitoring)
2- know who the posting user is (i.e. no anonymous speech)
3- try to make sure the posts don’t get copied by third parties (um, like web search engines??)
Basically, all three of those are effectively impossible.
in my opinion : #3 effectively seems impossible, #2 is contrary to Lemmy’s philosophy and #1 would require a lot of community supervision … that would require a different Lemmy software.
1 is impossible. You cannot screen every message sent, even screening every post would be a full time 24/7 job (3x full time moderators working in shifts).
The big platforms will run it through a blackbox content moderator system, and lobby to keep fines minimal. Lemmy would be screwed.
in my opinion : #3 effectively seems impossible, #2 is contrary to Lemmy’s philosophy and #1 would require a lot of community supervision … that would require a different Lemmy software.
1 is impossible. You cannot screen every message sent, even screening every post would be a full time 24/7 job (3x full time moderators working in shifts).
The big platforms will run it through a blackbox content moderator system, and lobby to keep fines minimal. Lemmy would be screwed.