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by Cantbekhan
2061 days ago
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It's extremely controversial ... in some places. In France right now the topic is extremely controversial due to recent events and will lead to laws proposed at National and EU level for regulating Social networks which are blamed openly by the public opinion for their amplifying effect. This combined with new laws proposals from Germany could soon have a substantial impact on Tech by mandating various regulations on such platforms. The effect of such regulations that could be endorsed by the two biggest and most influential members of the EU and could lead to a drastic change in the tech world in Europe. |
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>In France right now the topic is extremely controversial due to recent events
For those not aware last week a teacher was decapitated : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/world/europe/france-teach...
>Social networks which are blamed openly by the public opinion for their amplifying effect.
What are your source for public opinion here? Yes, mainstream media are bold on the social networks. The same mainstream media which are all owned by the wealthiest people of the country and still abundantly financed by the State to survive.
Mainstream media message is not "the public opinion", which is understandably diverse.
Actually, you don’t have to dig much into what penetrate even in the mainstream media to see opinions going from "well, if our proposal to harden the political system as we wish is unconstitutional, we just have to edit the constitution first" to "the same incompetent political class that led our country to the current wave of terrorism is now willing to burn the few remaining public liberty we can enjoy".
The question is not whether a topic is controversial or not. I can make a controversy on the color of your socket – or on endianness[1]. The question is whether we can treat a subject properly.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu#History_...