The EU Digital Services Act cannot create a scenario where critical documentation of war crimes gets deleted from the internet, Civil Liberties Union for Europe Senior Advocacy Officer Eva Simon and Coalition for Creativity Coordinator Caroline De Cock write for Euractiv. They compared the ongoing efforts by journalists and human rights groups to document evidence of war crimes in Ukraine to Google deleting videos from the Syrian Archive in 2018, which were removed by automatic filters using machine learning that flagged videos as inappropriate content.
19 April 2022
Op-ed: EU DSA 'cannot' restrict content, delete evidence of war crimes from web
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