Good news! Bravo Denmark!
Child protection was apparently used as a pretense for potentially massive government censorship and snooping!
Leave it to social media providers to remove e.g. child pornography! It is in their own best interest to prevent this abuse.
"The Danish EU Council Presidency has abandoned its plan to oblige providers of communication services to search for depictions of child sexual abuse, according to Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgard. A spokesperson for the Council Presidency stated this upon inquiry by heise online, thereby confirming a report by Danish broadcaster (DR).
Denmark's government, which presides over the Council of EU Member States until the end of the year, is tasked with achieving agreements between the states. It is thus abandoning one of the most controversial projects of recent months due to a lack of prospects for success. For weeks, the Danish Council Presidency had attempted to convince other member states of its proposal, according to which providers of communication services could have been obliged to actively search for potentially child-pornographic or abuse depictions. ..."
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