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EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else (bloomberg.com)
The European Union issued internet giants an ultimatum to remove illegal online terrorist content within an hour, or risk facing new EU-wide laws. From a report: The European Commission on Thursday issued a set of recommendations for companies and EU nations that apply to all forms of illegal internet material, "from terrorist content, incitement to hatred and violence, child sexual abuse material, counterfeit products and copyright infringement. Considering that terrorist content is most harmful in the first hours of its appearance online, all companies should remove such content within one hour from its referral as a general rule.â The commission last year called upon social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter and Google owner Alphabet, to develop a common set of tools to detect, block and remove terrorist propaganda and hate speech. Thursday's recommendations aim to "further step up" the work already done by governments and push firms to "redouble their efforts to take illegal content off the web more quickly and efficiently."
As a Slashdot reader since ~2001, this is just unacceptable.
On days I was on the internet I think I've checked them at least once a day. Even if it was just to scan headlines.
After deleting Facebook and trying to migrate away from Reddit I've been commenting daily. That is until the problems started.
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I actually had high hopes for the new ownership. I liked a lot of changes and whiplash actually engaged the community.
But this is just unacceptable. Slashdot is how I survived 9/11 when CNN couldn't handle the traffic. Slashdot defined 'slashdotting' long before "going viral" was a thing. I think Coral Cache was created just for Slashdotting.
While the comments have shifted a bit more right (politically) than I did. And the owners shifted left. (Leading to entertaining comments). And while it's not exactly the same type of news like it used to be. The moderation format and the ability to just plain hide low rated comments mean it's still one of the best places on the internet to have any sort of discussion.
And I can't ever remember this sort of outage. Or the plethora of 5xx errors I was getting before the outage started.
My guess is all the young guns don't know Perl like the old ones and something broke. But of all sites on the internet Slashdot is the one that should be able to handle anything.
I know the DevOps exists to scale from a few hundred hits an hour to a few thousand a second. /0100010001010011