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Re:German MPs vote for new law to fine social media companie... by Asooka on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:39AM (#14670027)
I'm a European citizen and I do not agree that said content should be illegal. I suspect OP would back me (partly) on the reasoning:

I don't want it to be illegal, because policing it requires the instatement of an automatic censorship framework, that even if it works perfectly, can be trivially re-used for stifling more speech. Not regulating media has bad consequences, but regulating media has even worse consequences. You can't save people from themselves.

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Re:German MPs vote for new law to fine social media companie... by owebmaster on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:35AM (#14670577)
It not being illegal, someone can use the internet to distort reality and public opinion using "machine learning" or blaming their "AI".
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