Europe is imposing another one of its rules on the rest of the world by forcing social media companies to take down extremist on-line postings in an hour after they are notified. Who are they kidding? Maybe they don't have anyone over on the continent who understand IT very well, but these are really big networks, scattered all over the world, with Billions of users, and hundreds of thousands of servers, caches and storage areas. Nobody can get rid of anything in an hour.
Security always has this kind of problem with classified material of one classification "leaking" into a system that is not supposed to have that kind of material. I have supervised some very big operations that looked for this stuff - usually email. It takes days to find it and get rid of it so it won't come back. If you don't believe me talk to someone in your own operations that have done it. This is ludicrous, illogical and technically not possible. I see the intent but legislation alone will not solve a technical problem like this. It is a goal, but you don't fine companies for not meeting goals. You fine them if they don't make a valid effort and make improvements in performance.
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