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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

the background to this is i read about about some uhh [description omitted to avoid förtal] who got in trouble for ”underlåtenhet att utse en ansvarig utgivare” for a podcast, and i found another, similar, older case about the same thing: https://www.jk.se/raettegaangar/tryck-och-yttrandefrihet/avslutade/6454-10-35/

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.

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