For tech giants like Apple, Google, and Facebook, messaging encourages platform lock-in, driving time spent on their other products.
This, we believe, will encourage platforms to compete against each other to improve standards on transparency, privacy and use of personal data," the chair of the report committee said today, as the report was published.
The proposal also encourages platforms to develop "automated detection tools" so they can take what it terms "proactive measures proportionate to the level of risk and to remove terrorist material from their services".
This is not legislation yet, but the threat of EU-wide laws being drafted to regulate content takedowns remains a discussion topic — to encourage platforms to improve performance voluntarily.
More specifically they suggest it will encourage platforms into algorithmically pre-filtering all user uploads — aka #censorshipmachines — and then blinkered AIs will end up blocking fair use content, cool satire, funny memes etc etc, and the free Internet as we know it will cease to exist.
A US rabbi has accused British academia of betraying the nation's traditions of free speech by encouraging "no platform" policies for speakers who voice support for Israel.
Critics of the film have variously accused it of glorifying the rapist by giving him a platform, encouraging copycat crimes, or prejudicing the appeals of the rapists and spurring demands to fast-track their executions.
For her 18th birthday this month, she decided to spend it launching her Eighteenx18 campaign, a storytelling platform encouraging young people to be active in politics and vote in midterm elections. .
mDialog's technology will power the J8 video platform, encouraging young people's participation through social video features including commenting, chatting and collaborating.
The Commission encourages collaborative platforms to continue taking voluntary action to fight illegal content online and to increase trust.
