The Council for Media Services is interested in ensuring the accessibility of its website in accordance with Act 95/2019 on information technologies in public administration and relevant implementing regulations in the scope of conditions according to Directive (EU) 2016/2102.
This accessibility statement applies to the website www.rpms.sk.
Compliance status
The presence of terrorist content on the internet can pose a serious risk to society. As demonstrated by the manifesto's publication by the terrorist attacker from Zámocká Street, terrorists misuse the internet to spread their messages. They intend to intimidate, radicalise, recruit or facilitate terrorist attacks. European Regulation 2021/784 on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online ("the Regulation") was created to tackle this threat.
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) is an Internet industry initiative to share information and technology for automated content moderation. The initiative was founded in 2017 by Facebook (later Meta), Google/YouTube, Microsoft and Twitter. As of 2019, it operates as an independent non-governmental organisation.
Role of GIFCT
The Christchurch Call initiative, which arose in connection with the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand’s second-largest city, was co-founded in 2019 by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron. The platform brings together more than one hundred and thirty entities—from governments and online service providers to non-profit organisations—to combat terrorist and violent extremist content on the internet.
The Council for Media Services intensively develops relations with partners abroad, primarily within the European Union and beyond. The importance of these activities is growing with the number of audiovisual media services provided across borders and the number of European legislative initiatives primarily aimed at regulating online content.
The Media Services Act gives the Council for Media Services the power to prevent the dissemination of illegal content and to work with digital platforms in the effective, proportionate and non-discriminatory application of their community rules, norms and standards.
Illegal content is defined in Section 151 of the Act. It includes, among other categories, content that "...incites or approves of conduct that fulfils the characteristics of any of the offences of terrorism..."
On 12 October 2022, at 7 pm, the first terrorist act in the history of Slovakia was committed on Zámocká Street in Bratislava. Just hours after the murder, the Council for Media Services launched a series of activities to eliminate the impact of the spread of terrorist and illegal content and hate speech in the online space.