Power Struggles, Lawsuits, and Wars Plague EU Censorship Roll-Out
February 17th is D-Day for the censorious Digital Services Act, but insiders say that Brussels is ill-prepared to handle the caseload.
February 17th is D-Day for the censorious Digital Services Act, but insiders say that Brussels is ill-prepared to handle the caseload.
The ‘illegal content’ probe marks the first use of the controversial Digital Services Act against a large social media company.
The French study described pornography as a “system that massacres women for profit.”
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.
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