EU bans hundreds of terrorism content from Archive.org

EU bans hundreds of terrorism content from Archive.org

Countries around the world are introducing laws to combat online horror content, and if websites and Internet service providers cannot remove suspicious content, they will be punished. But this fight may pose a real threat to sites like the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization that keeps copies of old web pages and other digital information. In a blog post yesterday, the organization explained that in the past week, it received more than 550 removal notices from the European Union that mistakenly identified hundreds of URLs on archive.org as "horror." Propaganda."

According to the law currently being drafted by the European Union, Internet archives may be punished for failing to comply with such a ban notice within an hour, including a fine of up to 4% of their global income. In a blog post by Chris Butler of the Internet Archive, he pointed out that not only are these notifications incorrect, such as notifications linking to all books on the site, but also sent at midnight, the site’s staff has go to bed.

The EU is not the only government entity to consider such changes; the UK, Canada and Australia are considering more stringent regulation of online platforms. Proponents of these bills tend to emphasize that companies like YouTube and Twitter can't regulate the content uploaded to their site, but they ignore the possibility of false deletions and overuse.