• Far Right Videos leave Google Open To Terror Law Probe.
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[QUOTE]Commons Home Affairs Committee chair Yvette Cooper said videos relating to National Action were still available on Google-run YouTube, despite Government requests to remove such content. She said that since she gave Google a dressing-down over the videos last week and then wrote to the internet company on Friday, it has taken down some of the videos but others remained online. Appearing before the committee, Solicitor General Robert Buckland suggested Google could be breaking the law if it was found to be “reckless” in allowing the material to remain online. Ms Cooper had asked whether Google had a responsibility, like Facebook and Twitter, to search pro-actively for and remove content by banned groups. Mr Buckland then drew attention to a provision in the Terrorism Act 2006, which “creates an offence of the dissemination of terrorist material either intentionally – I wouldn’t say the social media platforms are doing it intentionally – but there is an offence of recklessly disseminating this material, and I think the criminal law is there as a clear boundary beyond which people should not stray”. Later in the hearing, Ms Cooper asked the Government to clarify whether Google was breaking the law.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/391543/far-right-videos-leave-google-open-to-terror-law-probe/"]https://thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/391543/far-right-videos-leave-google-open-to-terror-law-probe/[/URL] Note: Advertisers are also pulling out of Adsense because their ads also keep coming up in the Far Right websites.
Do they consider "far right" to be a "banned group" in the UK? Would they consider Sargon to be "far right" material? Retarded censorship anyways, either the people posting the content have broken the law in the U.K. and should be processed as such, or the U.K. should fuck off. Really wish these companies had the balls to temporarily block access to their sites from these countries so people would care about their government restricting their access to it.
They have 1 far right group proscribed in the uk and the threshold is "when there's good reason to believe they have or will commit a terrorist act". The organization's name? National Action. The same group mentioned in this article. "Google please take down this terrorist video" doesn't sound as retarded as "Sargon is far right" now does it? [editline]22nd March 2017[/editline] Aaaaaand bang! [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1544985[/url] The group was banned late last year. [editline]22nd March 2017[/editline] For being terrorists.
If they're promoting terrorism, are they being arrested or having charges brought against them? Pretty sure Google would remove pro-terrorist content if requested. Sounds like they're trying to associate NA with terrorism and Google isn't buying it.
Media interest past the initial proscription seems to be low. I can get an article about one member being arrested for putting up THIS IS A WHITES ONLY ZONE posters around but I don't think that's necessary. The organization being on the list makes all members able to be arrested if they're linked to it. [quote]PROSCRIPTION OFFENCES Proscription makes it a criminal offence to: • belong, or profess to belong, to a proscribed organisation in the UK or overseas (section 11 of the Act); • invite support for a proscribed organisation (and the support is not, or is not restricted to the provision of money or other property) (section 12(1)); • arrange, manage or assist in arranging or managing a meeting in the knowledge that the meeting is to support or further the activities of a proscribed organisation, or is to be addressed by a person who belongs or professes to belong to a proscribed organisation (section 12(2)); or to address a meeting if the purpose of the address is to encourage support for, or further the activities of, a proscribed organisation (section 12(3));and • wear clothing or carry or display articles in public in such a way or in such circumstances as arouse reasonable suspicion that an individual is a member or supporter of the proscribed organisation (section 13). What are the penalties for a proscription offence? A. The penalties for proscription offences under sections 11 and 12 are a maximum of 10 years in prison and/or a fine. The maximum penalty for a section 13 offence is 6 months in prison and/or a fine not exceeding £10,000. [/quote] [editline]22nd March 2017[/editline] Funny, usually people complain about google not taking down terrorist stuff.
Being an American company that I assume hosts their servers in America, can't Google tell the UK to go fuck themselves? What can they do in retaliation? Block Google? I'm sure that would go over well with the voters of the MPs trying to censor this shit.
[QUOTE=matt000024;51997541]Being an American company that I assume hosts their servers in America, can't Google tell the UK to go fuck themselves? What can they do in retaliation? Block Google? I'm sure that would go over well with the voters of the MPs trying to censor this shit.[/QUOTE] Google (like many other large companies) has a EU office for tax (and in this case probably some other) purposes. They're entirely liable regarding whatever they do here, just like a local company. [editline]23rd March 2017[/editline] [URL="https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/locations/?region=europe"]Here's a map of their European offices.[/URL] [editline]23rd March 2017[/editline] They (like most other large internet companies) also use a CDN (content distribution network), so it's more accurate to say their server location is 'global'. I'm sure they have technical measures in place to comply with laws regarding which content is legal where, though.
[QUOTE=matt000024;51997541]Being an American company that I assume hosts their servers in America, can't Google tell the UK to go fuck themselves? What can they do in retaliation? Block Google? I'm sure that would go over well with the voters of the MPs trying to censor this shit.[/QUOTE] Google has a lot of datacenters now, theres one close by in Dublin. When it comes to this kind of stuff, they won't be blocked, they will just be fined.
I mean, I don't see what's wrong here. If the UK has classified the group as a terrorist group, there's nothing at all wrong with them asking Google to take down their videos. Especially since Google operates out of the UK as well.
They're not "Asking" google to take them down, they're telling them that they're breaking the law by not censoring them under the claim that it's a terrorist group, even if the specific content that has been left up is neither terrorism related nor breaks their own website's content rules.
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