Posted on 08/25/2023 8:51:48 AM PDT by ransomnote
[H/T Mewzilla]
The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) comes into force today, obliging “very large online platforms” to swiftly take down what unelected European Commission bureaucrats decide to define as ‘disinformation’.
As Laurie Wastell points out in the European Conservative, the DSA obliges online platforms to swiftly take down so-called disinformation. From today, the EC has at its disposal an aggressive enforcement regime, such that if Big Tech companies fail to abide by the EU’s ‘Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation’, which requires swift censorship of mis- and disinformation, then they can be fined up to 6% of their annual global revenue, investigated by the Commission, and potentially even prevented from operating in the EU altogether.
So, who is to say if something is misinformation? In the case of social media platforms operating within the EU, the EC is the arbiter of that, since it is the Commission that will decide if platforms like X and Facebook are doing enough to combat it. (It is the EU’s executive body, the EC, that is invested by the DSA with the exclusive power to assess compliance with the Code and apply penalties if a platform is found wanting.)
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Although I hear that many countries are also trying to make VPNs illegal.
GAB has stated it will not comply. Support GAB. Screw X.
I doubt FR qualifies as a “very large online platforms”, so probably not. But it wouldn’t be a surprise for that definition to get smaller and smaller so they can ‘legally’ block smaller websites they don’t like.
You vill have der gay pride parades
You vill eat ze bugs
But that will change if an open system is no longer available.
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