The big social media platforms and the search engines have been violating both local and international law for years, specifically the Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1976 as law by all UN charter members, has been ignored completely.
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What 'rights' in particular are you thinking of?
That's an easy one: Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
People are harassed, stalked, bullied, revenge porn'd, extorted, spied on and black mailed on line all the time; this goes on for years. There were more than 200 such websites, most of them tackled by individuals as gubmints refused to do so.
Read the original 1948 draft here, people should read it, it's interesting stuff especially since all UN charter members signed on: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
The Declaration was the first step in the process of formulating the International Bill of Human Rights, which was completed in 1966, and came into force in 1976, after a sufficient number of countries had ratified them. Second paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
I could continue for a while, but I think most will be able to relate any of these laws to reality on the ground in their particular location.
I see, ok - I only recall looking at the EU version previously - which is basically a corruption that inserts caveats that render the whole thing pointless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights#Article_8_%E2%80%93_privacy
Well, the 1976 adoption still stands even if they write clauses clearing themselves of any wrongdoing, as long as the original draft is not enforced. Malaysia was the only Nation with the balls to convict Bush & co for war crimes when the UN should have done this. Peculiar this didn't make front page news: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/
I also question the intent of lawmakers. You have to wonder when a single law can exceed 74,000 pages, if it was meant to ever be read/understood in the first place. Throw in 20,000+ new laws every year and no one can reasonably keep track of what is legal.