Digital Policy concerning Hate Speech, formerly goverment lawyer in this field (responsible for NetzDG), Judge ... interested in online platform law for long.
Dec 19, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Zur Zeit kursiert ein geleakter DDG-RegE (Umsetzung zum DSA) ... offenbar Kabinettsbeschluss morgen.
Das meiste ist nichts neues, der RefE aus letztem Sommer wurde ja schon viel besprochen, hier nur meine 50 Cents zu Auffälligkeiten:
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I - 148 Planstellen !!!
... für für den deutschen Koordinator bei der BNetzA (60 hD). Das ist sehr sehr viel, wenn man bedenkt, dass der deutsche DSC wohl nur kleine oder unauffällige (Zalando) Anbieter in seiner originären Zuständigkeit haben wird.
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May 18, 2022 • 31 tweets • 11 min read
#DSA - Et Voila – finally a 600pages document for the final draft oft he #DSA (Trilogue settled version + technical amnds) has found its way to the public.
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Overall impression: Council position prevailed in many instances over EP (good!)
After looking at the document, here my 50cent on points that I found still unclear after the Trilogue so far (will leave out points clear from press releases – this here for afficionados):
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Apr 26, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Elon Musk buys Twitter. And many here, me including, start to worry. But why?
As far as I know, Musk hinted at two things he would do: Transparency for Algorithms (okay…) and “more” Free Speech, translate to: less moderating of objectionable, borderline content (oha!).
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The assumption that less moderation in the grey area of lawful but awful leads to “more” free speech on quality-social-media-platforms is too simplistic.
Indeed, less moderation can threat “free speech” by allowing attacks on speakers and listeners.
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Apr 8, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Super interesting, German District Court Frankfurt (2-03 O 188/21) rules on filter-obligations for social networks in defamation cases (Künast v. Facebook).
In a nutshell:
Facebook loses, needs to take pro-active measures to prevent (identical + equivalent) defamation.
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Court basically argues: After the claimant (MP Künast) notified Facebook about one instance of defamatory post, the law didn’t require her to sysiphus-like search every re-share or re-upload. Instead, Facebook was obliged to pro-actively prevent copies and re-appearances.
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Apr 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Art. 15(1) E-Commerce-Directive is THE decisive rule to which extent you might successfully sue Facebook & Co. to filter/prevent infringing content.
Topic is of relevance these days for 2 reasons: First, we might see another landmark ruling: on 8th April 2022 ...
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.. a German district Court will rule on filter obligations in prominent proceeding Künast v. Facebook (important since in this area we have one ECJ ruling which is somewhat vague and few national courts have chances to move on with interpretation).
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Jan 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: Politiker wollen #Google und #Apple bitten, #Telegram aus den Appstores zu nehmen (#BMI#Faeser will an “gesellschaftliche Verantwortung” appelieren; NI-Min #Pistorius will “dringend mit ihnen sprechen und sie davon überzeugen …”). 1/X
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Informelles Verwaltungshandeln ist eine gutes Thema für mehrere Doktorarbeiten. Auf jeden Fall hat es mal mehr, mal weniger Beigeschmack. Hier finde ich es nicht überzeugend:
