LAWS
of speech in Jamaica.
“How can we keep supporting freedom of speech and at the same time deal with the fact that people are reaching out through social media to disaffected youth, mostly young males, and encouraging them to see violence as a solution to their problems?”
A number of countries have enacted laws to govern social media in their jurisdiction. Germany, for instance, implemented a law in 2018 that forces companies to set up procedures to review complaints about content they host and to remove, in 24 hours, anything illegal.
The European Union (EU) is considering a clampdown on certain videos, especially those that depict terror. If implemented, social media platforms could face stiff fines if they don’t delete extremist content within one hour.
Also, the EU introduced the General Data Protection Regulation, which sets rules about how people’s data are stored by big Internet companies.