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Re:Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR by ashtonkem on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:50PM (#23264087)
Europe has very different legal traditions around free speech; it doesn’t necessarily work to map American understandings of free speech onto other countries’ legal traditions.

Besides, there are plenty of ways as an American I can force you to remove a photo without it being “blatant free speech” issue. Copyright and trademark come to mind, NDAs too.

Re:Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR by philipov on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:20PM (#23264539)
Even the American notion of Free Speech spelled out in the First Amendment only restricts the government's power to censor speech. Private enterprise can censor anything it wants on its platforms, unless it comes under the jurisdiction of some kind of regulator. This is why it's so dangerous to democracy that so much political speech these days relies on unregulated privately-owned platforms.