The freedom of press is dead

  • throw42069at [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    IANAL but to me, this looks (hopefully unintentionally) much more insidious (emphasis mine):

    It shall be prohibited for operators to broadcast or to enable, facilitate or otherwise contribute to broadcast, any content by the legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex XV, including through transmission or distribution by any means such as cable, satellite, IP-TV, internet service providers, internet video-sharing platforms or applications, whether new or pre-installed.

    So one way to interpret this is that all ISPs are currently violating this simply by enabling end-to-end-encrypted communication. Any service that would enable or facilitate sending RT streams (ie encrypted communication) are violating this.

    Heck, even hosting a blog platform where someone posts a screenshot of the RT website would be in trouble. Cloud providers might have to close the accounts of a significant portion of their customers to cover their behinds.

    This article must be revised (or even revoked). I’m certain that it is unconstitutional in more than one EU country.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30537464