The Commission has been encouraging voluntary action by the industry to
remove illegal content online through initiatives such as the Code of Conduct on Illegal Hate Speech Online and the EU Internet Forum.
The e-Commerce Directive requires online platforms to act «expeditiously» to
remove illegal content after they have obtained knowledge of it; it does not define what this means in practical terms.
Orna Ross, the founder of the UK - based Alliance of Independent Authors («ALLi») certainly rose to the occasion, telling The Bookseller's Campbell, «Of course we understand the need to
remove illegal content but to remove all self - published books is not only knee - jerk but misguided.
Not exact matches
The European Union has issued internet giants an ultimatum to
remove illegal online terrorist
content within an hour, or risk facing new reprisals.
d. Mexicandatingo.com will
remove all profiles that have
illegal content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; harasses or advocates harassment of another person; involves the transmission of «junk mail», «chain letters», or unsolicited mass mailing or «spamming»; promotes information that is false, misleading, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous.
d. ChristianDatingF.com will
remove all profiles that have
illegal content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; harasses or advocates harassment of another person; involves the transmission of «junk mail», «chain letters», or unsolicited mass mailing or «spamming»; promotes information that is false, misleading, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous.
d. aFreeDating.com will
remove all profiles that have
illegal content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; harasses or advocates harassment of another person; involves the transmission of «junk mail», «chain letters», or unsolicited mass mailing or «spamming»; promotes information that is false, misleading, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous.
You understand and agree that LoveCompass Free Online Dating may review and
remove any
Content that in the sole judgment of LoveCompass Free Online Dating violates this Agreement or which, in the sole discretion of LoveCompass Free Online Dating, might be offensive or
illegal or might violate the rights of, harm, or threaten the safety of Members.
d. Ukcupiddating.com will
remove all profiles that have
illegal content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; harasses or advocates harassment of another person; involves the transmission of «junk mail», «chain letters», or unsolicited mass mailing or «spamming»; promotes information that is false, misleading, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous.
There are many
content concerns in this PG - 13 movie, including a strong message that
illegal racing is fun and consequences can be
removed with money and powerful friends.
Blasty is an online tool that monitors Google for
illegal copies of your
content and allows you to
remove them...
You are encouraged to report untrue, inaccurate, defamatory,
illegal, infringing and / or harmful
content available on this website to TravelGround.com and we shall use our reasonable endeavours to correct and / or
remove such
content, or any part thereof, if you provide reasonable grounds to prove the alleged nature of such
content.
The OPC believes that organizations (including search engines) already engage in such balancing measures, and that search engines in particular already have mechanisms in place to evaluate de-indexing requests and
remove potential harmful or
illegal content from their search results.
Whilst its terms and conditions forbid the use of the service for instigating or encouraging
illegal conduct, it is not in its interest to either actively monitor messages, or to amend them to
remove such
content.
To ensure the Code of Conduct is having the intended impact, NGOs and public bodies from across the EU provide data on how quickly such
illegal content was
removed.
They then decide if the
content can be considered as
illegal online hate speech and if it needs to be
removed.
Gigaom reserves the right to treat User Submissions as
content stored at the direction of users for which Gigaom will not exercise control except to block or
remove content that comes to Gigaom's attention and is offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, threatening, abusive,
illegal, libelous, defamatory, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading or otherwise objectionable to Gigaom, or to enforce the rights of third parties or the
content restrictions set forth below in this Agreement when notice of their violation comes to Gigaom's attention.
After pushback against specific ads promoting
illegal activity, the site has been insistent that it simply hosts third - party
content,
removing offending ads when brought to its attention.
Despite this, even Twitter has been caught between a rock and a hard place, with countries like Russia and Pakistan pressuring the company to
remove accounts and use its «country withheld
content» tool to block access to tweets that are deemed to be
illegal — in some cases merely because they involve opinions that the authorities don't want distributed.
US technology companies have faced tight scrutiny in Europe for the way they do business, from privacy issues to how quickly they
remove illegal or threatening
content.
«As the latest figures show, we have already made good progress
removing various forms of
illegal content.
They don't want to take meaningful efforts to curtail
illegal content on their site (and are known to be terrible about
removing flagged
content) so instead of putting effort into anything... they'll just shut the section down.