Reed’s report also calls for censorship and regulation of civil society organizations, traditional and social media in highly intrusive ways. It calls for aggressive content moderation and “responsibility for third party content” for social media companies and objects to exemptions from hate speech laws for media outlets when “reproducing or broadcasting direct speech of individual politicians, especially if transmitted live on air”
The United States’ support for these provisions is surprising, given that the United States government was the main promoter of the strict standard against child pornography in the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child only twenty-five years ago.
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