“If they don’t act immediately, we’ll be able to ban the operation [of the platforms] on our territory.” Nineteen very large online platforms will have to comply to limit the spread of illegal and harmful content.

  • HumanPenguin
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    1 year ago

    illegal and harmful content.

    Likely depends on how that is described.

    The fact that instances do not have huge corps with legal teams to back them. Likely means the admins of an instance will back down quickly.

    But the advantage of federation. Is that if many disagree with the legal or harmful definition. There would likely be offers to host the content/community on an instance outside that jurisdiction.