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| Twitter urges Europe to guarantee freedom of expression on the Internet |
Twitter urged the European Union to take a flexible approach to harmful and illegal content online rather than a set of rules that should be removed. This should keep the internet open.
Twitter, Mozilla, Automattic and Vimeo have written an open letter to EU lawmakers calling on them to ensure that EU laws do not interfere with freedom of expression on the Internet.
The letter comes a week before European Union Chief Technology Officer Margaret Westager proposes a draft of the regulation.
The rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Marketplace Law (DMA), are designed to encourage large companies to take more responsibility, once notified, to remove illegal and harmful content.
The committee said that the legislative proposal established clear responsibilities for dealing with the platforms for illegal and harmful content and added a number of additional responsibilities to increase competition in the digital market.
In a joint open letter, the two companies said the solution should go beyond just removing content, and unclear content removal obligations could have a negative impact on freedom of expression.
By restricting policy options to binary systems, she added, we are giving up promising alternatives that can better address the prevalence of problematic content and its impact while protecting the rights and competitiveness of small businesses. .
The best approach, the two companies said, is to reduce the number of people encountering harmful content. This can be achieved through technical interest in proliferation, support for transparency measures, control of algorithms, reduction in the ability to detect harmful content, and further research on the community. Managing and proposing important decisions. To the user.
The two companies said the new EU rules should take into account the increasingly decentralized hosting of content and data.
After announcing the draft regulation on December 15, the European Commission will prepare a final draft of the law with the European Union countries and the European Parliament. This process can take months or even years.