I would love to see Google banned from the EU.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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Time to fine them 100 million a day until they comply
What "new EU law" is being discussed? I read several articles like this but I failed to figure that out.
It helps me that this article expressed "The EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation, introduced in 2022, includes several voluntary commitments" is relevant, but I don't consider a law that is 2-3 years old to be "new". Moreover, I'm not even sure what a "voluntary commitment" is in the context of a law.
The fines will hurt.
There will be no fines. There won't be any compliance to EU laws. Why do you think all the tech ceo went to kiss the ring of Trump this last month. No American based tech company will comply with EU laws because trumps government will protect them so they will spread his propaganda in exchange. America has sold its soul to the devil and with open eyes.
Trump will allow them to repatriate their cash tax free bumping American banks liquid cash on hand while also draining European banks of trillions of dollars.
Yall ain't winning this one.
I do have to wonder, how could Google (or any search engine) be expected to perform fact checking on search results? It seems technically impossible.
Google doesn't just provide links, it scrubs content out of sites (with scripts before, now with LLMs) and presents it as Google's own content.
If they do that, they should be responsible if the content break laws.
Oh, yes I agree they should be responsible for anything they generate themselves, but if it's just a regurgitation of content that their web crawler pulled from a website which then appeared in search results then it's the original website that should be responsible.
It seems like a heavy-handed enforcement of this policy could just break web search functionality entirely.
Downvoters have no idea how web indexes work.
So if Google pulls out the wrong part of your website and gives dangerous information, you'd be responsible?
Well, why is that 'dangerous information' available to be pulled out of my website in the first place?
My guy, leaving out context can change whether information is dangerous or not.
Say I have a website that explains how to get clothes clean, and I recommend bleach. I also have a subsection "Danger: things you should never do with bleach!" listing dangerous things, e.g. "drinking bleach". Now Google pulls out only that list without the heading.
In your world, I'm responsible for Google showing information in the wrong context, which is nuts. I can't be expected to write everything so it's unambiguous, no matter how small a snippet you extract.
"You don't want to drink bleach on a sunny day" could be understood as "It's okay to drink bleach on a cloudy day"
Um... "could be"...? Literally anything anybody writes could be misinterpreted, so I don't really see the point of this line of argument, nor any value in legislating around it.
It also seems ethically and culturally disastrous. I do not want Google to be the arbiter of truth on the internet. Does the EU law require that the fact-checks be accurate and unbiased?
Hmm, I guess from one point of view Google already is the de facto "arbiter of truth on the internet" as the most popular search engine, hence the need for regulation.
Does the EU law require that the fact-checks be accurate and unbiased?
Are they really fact checks otherwise?
But then you definitely have a who-watches-the-watchers problem.