Pedro Sánchez insists on the need to stop the “Technocasta”. The President of the Government has reloaded this Wednesday against the “technobillonarians”, their growing political power and harassment and misinformation that they tolerate in some of their networks. Therefore, it has advanced that the Executive is “studying mechanisms” that “ensure the legal responsibility” of technological magnates for those personal damages that cause their services, “guaranteeing that they may be judicially accounts by the violation of rights and freedoms that are give these platforms. ”
“We cannot allow those who design, and benefit from these platforms, they absolutely disregard the impact they have on society” or “avoid the consequences of the damage caused by their algorithms,” he said. On the contrary, Sanchez asks that their owners comply with “their obligations as the rest of the businessmen, such as any autonomous, as does any worker does.”
The exemption of responsibility of the networks regarding what happens within them is an inheritance of the well -known “section 230” of the American law. At the Internet dawn, this standard described the platforms as containers of what users publish and not as editors of those contents. This implies that they are not legal responsible for these, so their obligations are reduced to eliminating them when they receive official communication of the existence of an irregularity. The rest of the world assimilated this regulation as its own and is the one that has been maintained since then.
This Wednesday, Sánchez has pledged to promote a debate within the EU to change this legal status as one of the three pillars to correct the lack of lack of control that the digital world is going through. He has also reiterated the need to “end the anonymity that poisons social networks”, as already stated in the Davos Economic Forum, as well as increasing investments to generate infrastructure and public platforms.
“We must develop own browsers, social, public and private, European, messaging services that use open protocols, anyway. I am not talking about unattainable goals, on the contrary, we have recent examples that with resources and talent, because they show that you can enter that career and with that spirit, ”he said, putting Alia as an example, the family of artificial intelligences trained in Spanish and co -official languages launched by the government recently.
New Digital Rights Observatory
Sanchez has made these statements during the presentation of the new digital rights observatory, an initiative of the government launched to ensure that the rights of citizens are protected in the digital environment. They are part of it about twenty companies and universities that “will promote research, promoting public debate and designing effective application strategies of the Digital Rights Charter in Spain,” according to Telefónica, one of the participants.
The Observatory has a budget of 10.83 million euros financed with recovery funds. Among its objectives is the promotion of awareness programs on the importance of privacy, security and equitable access to technology or the promotion of citizen participation in the creation of digital policies. The organism will also produce reports on the social and ethical impact of technology as well as digital gaps.
#Government #technological #magnates #pay #court #damages #caused #platforms
