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DEMOCRACY WATCH
Big Brussels is Watching You
The Digital Services Act empowers the European Commission to police what voters are told at elections.
The Digital Services Act empowers the European Commission to police what voters are told at elections.
While conservative MEPs criticized her for abandoning pragmatism for utopist ideology, the Commission chief argued in favor of enlargement to 30+ member states, “History is calling us to [complete] our Union.”
‘Spy clause’ to scan private encrypted messages not ditched—just kicked down the road for the next government to implement.
The technocratic crusade against so-called disinformation is in fact nakedly political and anti-democratic.
Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X is part of a swirl of events that pits the volatile entrepreneur against the EU as new copyright lawsuits and hate speech legislation loom on the horizon.
The EU has become fully reliant on Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, to get its satellites into orbit, while its regulators hope to bring the hammer down on Musk this month over hate speech regulation on Twitter.
“Twitter has chosen the hard way, they chose confrontation,” Commission VP Věra Jourová said, promising vigorous enforcement of EU law and a hefty penalty if Twitter’s compliance is deemed insufficient.
Similar to the Digital Services Act and GDPR, the AI Act attempts to imprint the EU’s value system on technologies not yet created and scarcely understood.
In a video message, together with EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, Musk declared they had a “great discussion” and that the EU is “exactly aligned with my thinking.”
One of the key elements of the DSA is the additional requirements for VLOPs. The likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon will have to conduct an annual risk assessment analysis; failure to comply will be punishable by hefty fines.
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