Platform Regulation and Hate Speech – DSA vs. Austrian Communications Platforms Act
Submitted by hanness on 17 January 2023 - 5:21pm
Online platforms remain tricky terrain. How should we treat this quasi-public space, where anyone who has the necessary reach can speak to and mobilise thousands in the blink of an eye? To achieve something comparable in the analogue era, you needed a broadcast licence, and these licences were subject to certain rules for a reason. Now, anyone can be a sender and a receiver, and this raises new challenges.