Hungary Social Media

Breitbart: Hungary Announces Investigation into Social Media Censorship in Europe……


 

A wise and necessary move…

 

Hungary Announces Investigation into Social Media Censorship in Europe

 

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.

 

The Hungarian minister made her announcement on social media platform Facebook over the weekend, saying she would be creating a “working group” within the ministry to “investigate the possibilities for a legal environment to ensure the transparency of social media service providers – both on EU and national level.”

 

“Originally their job would not be to influence societal processes and elections by censoring comments on an ideological basis, however, if they had done it once they shall accept the necessity of the regulation and follow the rules of democracy,” she added.

 

The announcement comes only a month after Emmanuel Macron’s government announced it would be taking the opposite view and would look to force search engines and social media networks to censor “hate speech” in France.

 

The measure, which was passed in early July, would see large fines for internet companies who do not remove offending material within a 24-hour period.

 

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