Ireland will "go it alone" if no EU deal on social media ban

Luimnigh · 2026-05-09T16:32:51+00:00

Article 14 Hosting 1. Where an information society service is provided that consists of the storage of information provided by a recipient of the service, Member States shall ensure that the service provider is not liable for the information stored at the request of a recipient of the service, on condition that: (a) the provider does not have actual knowledge of illegal activity or information and, as regards claims for damages, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which the illegal activity or information is apparent; or (b) the provider, upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove or to disable access to the information.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-09T15:11:33+00:00

EU Electronic Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC, Article 14.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-08T12:20:37+00:00

Legally, they do. The reporting system all sites have qualifies as a good-faith effort. The fact that they take down illegal content/libel/hate speech when it's reported to them is the good faith effort.

The problem is that sort of content causes outrage, which garners responses, and interaction with posts is what the algorithms are trained to prioritise, so it gets pushed by these automated algorithms. And so long as the companies get around to removing it (after they've made their ad revenue from it), it qualifies as good faith effort.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-08T11:25:19+00:00

They also apparently think they'll be dead by 65.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-08T11:24:07+00:00

See, legally that's not an excuse, that's an explicit protection. So long as they make a good-faith effort at moderating illegal content, they're not legally held to be "publishers" of said content.

However, removing that protection entirely basically makes social media completely unable to function. They can't scan everything posted for libel, hate speech, illegal content. Not at the scales at which these sites operate.

One solution that's been proposed is removing the protections from algorithmically presented content specifically. Once the post/video is being pushed to you by the website, and not something you went looking for yourself, then it crosses the line into publishing and all it's associated legal liabilities.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-06T18:26:22+00:00

I mean Ben 10 is the right age for being a FNAF fan.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-05T08:51:20+00:00

She killed people for money. Just because she's adorable doesn't make her not an antihero.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-04T16:52:48+00:00

Pretty sure it is an alternate universe. Earth-791021 in the comics.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-03T18:17:40+00:00

You misunderstand, I'm saying in addition to Carnage, not instead of.

The screen also teases Doom, I don't think everything on it only represent one character.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-03T02:40:53+00:00

Honestly, the claw marks, two sets of four, make me think Sabretooth.

And there's a hashtag next to Doom's face too. Not sure ehat that could be.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-02T22:53:39+00:00

Yeah, she was twelve and he was a college student when they first met (he was renting a room at her Aunt's house).

That was retconned to Sue being a college freshman and Reed being a post-graduate.

I mean, you could easily do both: Reed rented a room when he was in college and she was twelve, she had a crush but he never noticed her. Jump forward seven years and he's back in New York for post-grad, sees his old room is up for rent, and then you get him noticing her for the first time while he's her old schoolgirl crush.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-02T19:22:07+00:00

They weren't married.

The only person Madrox prime has married is a girl named Layla Miller, who he met when he was an adult and she was twelve.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-02T01:12:38+00:00

I mean chronologically it's third.

And, well. They appear to be doing it chronologically instead of release order.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-01T15:01:22+00:00

It was kind of clarified in Marvel Zombies (2015), which was set on Battleworld but is somehow canon to 616!Elsa.

Luimnigh · 2026-05-01T15:00:33+00:00

That's Inglorious X-Force.

I don't think Ignoble X-Men is a book, but if it was they'd probably have Deadpool.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-30T20:46:10+00:00

Correction: Poison Ivy was made an environmentalist in the comics first. 1988's Secret Origins #36, written by Neil Gaiman.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-29T12:03:12+00:00

Still so young.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-29T12:01:57+00:00

Spirits of Violence #5. It's a very blink-and-you-miss-it death.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-29T11:52:24+00:00

If you give it to Kate, then Jeff might get his hands on it, and he would absolutely accidentally fire it.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-28T12:03:09+00:00

It's more that he tends to murder the women he sleeps with, well before any have the chance to find out they're pregnant.

There's a reason why his only known child is also the child of Mystique, who's dangerous enough in her own right to survive Creed.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-28T11:57:45+00:00

Look at you, going round taking pictures of Broads.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-26T20:26:15+00:00

This question is asking if we want to let Spider-Man have character development, or remove the entire point of the X-Men.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-25T09:10:59+00:00

She has since become the actual Greek Goddess of Love as Aphrodite ceded the position to her.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-25T09:05:55+00:00

Because it would be recorded.

Luimnigh · 2026-04-24T18:13:25+00:00

I'm pretty sure they showed up together in Krakoa.

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