Buongiorno, https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-fined-100000-euro-after-german-court-rejec... «YouTube fined 100,000 Euro after German court rejects its “misinformation” excuse for deleting anti-lockdown protest video» Author: Didi Rankovic Date: lun, 12 lug 2021 19:26:01 CEST --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] Regardless of the amount in question, which appears to be the highest on record in Germany but is insignificant to Google’s trillion-dollar business – the lawyer for the operator of the channel that was subjected to censorship, Joachim Steinhofel, put the stress in his comments on the legal precedent here, calling the ruling “historic” – because YouTube has to comply with court decisions regardless of whether or not it thinks its own “community guidelines” had been violated. Unlike in the US, where Big Tech’s right to censor speech is granted to them as private internet operators, it seems that Europeans are ready to stop playing by those rules and start imposing their own laws. The Dresden court did not accept YouTube’s explanation that the Covid protest video had to be removed based on the company’s “medical misinformation policy.” This new policy, introduced at the start of wide-spread coronavirus (mis)information suppression on major social networks, at the time wasn’t even properly incorporated into YouTube’s own rules that form a “contract” with channel owners. [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, Giovanni. -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.