Dear All,
Civil Liberties committee has just adopted MEP Dalton's compromises as the
report on the Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist
content online. There are some amendments added that require further
analysis but the key changes are positive:
1. Improvements on definition of terrorist content with exclusions to
artistic, journalistic, educational and research purposes
2. Specific measures referring to platforms receiving a substantial number
of removal orders; the regulation applies to those that make content
available to the public (so a positive limitation)
3. Referrals removed from the proposal with a caveat that Europol referrals
should be taken as a priority by platforms when content is flagged (in
recital)
4. Specific measures steer away from content filtering and forbid general
monitoring.
Unfortunately, the 1h deadline for removing content has been sustained.
Interestingly, Rapporteur Dalton called out the European Commission on not
understanding the democratic parliamentary process, applying pressure on
quick adoption of the file and dismissing debate on controversial issues as
unnecessary and going against the goals of the regulation. It is quite a
serious accusation as the EC is not supposed to pressure MEPs that way.
After the text is published we will have a more in-depth analysis of other
changes and how the whole proposal could affect Wikimedia. The vote in the
plenary is planned for next week. After that - the trilogues.
Happy to take on any questions you may have regarding the report.
best wishes,
Anna
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Anna Mazgal
EU Policy Advisor
Wikimedia
anna(a)wikimedia.be
@a2na
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