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AFP: Austria mulls user registration for online platforms
Austria said Wednesday it was considering a law to make it mandatory for big internet platforms to register their users and deprive those behind hate posts of anonymity.
"Unfortunately there have been an increasing number of clear violations, denigrations and humiliations online in the past under the cover of anonymity.
That's why we need a framework for more responsibility online," Chancellor Sebastian Kurz wrote on Twitter.
The new law would take effect in 2020 and would make it mandatory for platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to register their users, said Gernot Bluemel, minister in charge of EU affairs, art, culture and media.
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WNU Editor: I predict that within 5 years all western countries will be having some form of registration system that internet users must be signed into. Bottom line. As I have said repeatedly in the past few years, the golden age of the internet where you were free to do what you want is rapidly coming to an end.
