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uhhh it seems like almost everyone in sweden who streams on twitch is breaking the law, including me, because under yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen almost any live stream is a broadcast, and for that you must nominate an ansvarig utgivare, but nobody does. am i missing something

now, the two cases i'm aware of are for livestreamed radio, but i don't think there's any reason video would be different (the wording in yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen is quite vague). i have no idea if a twitch streamer has been taken to court. i assume it's only a matter of time.

i am extremely not a lawyer and i'd love to be proved wrong about this

oh right a friend pointed out to me that BBS-lagen is a thing, so maybe sites like Twitch are fine? hmm

tbh I doubt BBS-lagen has any relevance though, it doesn't seem like it exempts anything from being covered by yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen

ooh wait the law may actually have been changed recently!

”Från den 1 januari 2023 gäller nya regler i yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen för webbsändningar. Nu ska endast traditionella massmedieföretag registrera sina webbsändningar och utgivare hos oss.”

https://mprt.se/sanda-och-publicera-media/medier-pa-natet/allmant-om-medier-pa-natet/

I think this is the law they're talking about: Lag (2022:1525) om ändring i yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen: https://svenskforfattningssamling.se/doc/20221525.html

I have a hard time trying to understand what the changes actually mean. Maybe reading chapter 10 of https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2020/08/sou-202045/ would help.

ah I see, that second document (the report that proposed the law change) explains that most internet publication isn't covered by yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen, but livestreaming used to be an exception because, when they wrote the law, they expected it to be TV/radio simulcasts

the report writers knew what they were doing. they talk about many kinds of live streaming, including several mentions of twitch, and the many ways that ”webbsändningsregeln […] inte längre kan anses vara ändamålsenlig och väl avvägd”, including the issue I was worried about.

okay here we go, the way they did it was by changing 1 kap. 3 § yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen, and the mechanism and intent is explained in pages 228–230 of the report I linked earlier. MPRT's description of it being about “traditional media” is not bad, but you can opt in too.

tl;dr: 2023-01-01 sweden legalised gaming. we did it reddit

wow this blew up. kolla in det här poddavsnittet om hur nynazister mm använder en kryphål i grundlagen för att slippa ansvar för hets mot folkgrupp

https://expo.se/fakta/podcasts/n%C3%A4r-hatet-blev-straffritt