Patrick Breyer, shadow rapporteur of the Green Group in the EU Parliament for the planned regulation against terrorist propaganda, calls for more public support in the fight against a second wave of upload filters. The drafts of the EU Commission and the member states provide for the mandatory use of such censorship machines, the member of the Pirate Party said on Thursday at an online conference on the “secret negotiations on the EU terror filter”.

According to the positions of the Commission and the Council, providers would have to remove terrorist content within an hour of receiving a “cross-border rapid deletion order,” complained Breyer. All platforms on which you can publish content would be affected. In contrast to the German Network Enforcement Act, a minimum number of users is not required.

Unclear definition of the term propaganda “What terrorist content is is only very imprecisely defined,” complained the lawyer Breyer. Terrorist propaganda would also have to be removed if it were disseminated for purposes of education, art, journalism or research and even if it was intended to “raise awareness of terrorist activities”. Upload filters are particularly dangerous here, as they do not understand the context and tend to “systematically identify false positives.”

“Even legal content is suppressed,” Breyer fears. The requirements are not only a “huge problem, especially for smaller platforms”, but also for freedom of expression. It should be borne in mind that, according to the plans of the Brussels executive institution and the governments of the EU countries, authoritarian member states such as Hungary under Viktor Orbán could have publications in Germany deleted.

Article 13 2.0 The so-called trialogue talks of the EU bodies, which take place behind closed doors, now went into the final phase, carried out the MP. The next round is for the 29. Scheduled for October. Breyer alluded to the debate about upload filters in the copyright directive that he saw the danger that the moderate forces in parliament could collapse and that an article 13 would come out in variant 2.0.

So far it has been the line of the MPs that host providers do not have to use automated tools, reported Breyer. The competent authorities of the Member States should also only be able to have content removed in their own country. The additional condition of a judge’s reservation, however, had “already given up” during the search for a compromise.

Protests planned Breyer accused the German Council Presidency of showing himself to be completely adamant about the core problems with a “so-called compromise proposal”. Instead of “proactive” measures, the paper speaks of “specific” measures that providers would have to take. With this, the member states want to tackle the question of automated instruments. For Breyer, however, it is clear that the federal government is thus through the back door under the aegis of Bundesinne