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Content Restrictions:
- A British law titled Public Order 1986, prohibits hate speech directed at certain protected classes even by private citizens
- In 2014, British man Jake Newsome was jailed after posing on social media that he was “glad” a recently attacked British School teacher was murdered, and that he “felt sorry” for the boy accused of her murder.
- A 2021 “Online Safety Bill” proposed in British Parliament requiring social media companies to remove content that is “Legal but harmful” or face penalty of fine
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- Indian Central Government ordered Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to remove dozens of social media posts, and hashtags that were critical of the central government, and many of the social media companies complied
- The posts, with messages calling the Prime Minister of India’s covid handling ‘mismanagement’, were considered by the government to “spread fake or misleading information”
- When removing the content Facebook, and other social media websites, pointed toward local country laws that justify the removal of content.
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- In 2016, after the King Bhumibol Adulyade of Thailand died, the Thai Government ordered Google to remove over 100 articles critical of the monarchy
- Google complied, stating that adhering to local law justified the removal of the posts
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