Global News Round-Up: The EU Imposes Their Censorship on All of Us.

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ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS

19 SEPT 2023

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In a well written article in the EuroNews, Dr Norman Lewis writes that the EU needs to “let the court of public opinion decide what is truth, information or disinformation. For that, we need more free speech, more freedom, certainly not the censorious Digital Services Act”.

A spectre is haunting Europe — not of communism, but of state censorship. In the name of fighting disinformation, the European Commission, through its Digital Services Act (DSA), is about to fundamentally alter what can be said or shared on the Internet, the public square of the 21st century.

The DSA, passed last year and whose major provisions will come into force next month, is a law ostensibly aimed at regulating Big Tech’s control over online content. 

Many people have embraced it. Investigative journalist Julia Angwin expressed this well in a piece in the New York Times where she welcomed this "bold experiment" as "the most extensive effort toward checking the power of Big Tech". 

"For the first time, tech platforms will have to be responsive to the public in myriad ways", she stated.

However, the DSA has little to do with public responsiveness or accountability. No European citizen has voted for it, or indeed, even had the opportunity to debate it. The DSA has been designed to be solely responsive to the needs of the unelected European Commission.

With Digital Services Act now in place, the US Congress needs to act now to further protect our freedoms on the web by disassociating US social media censorship actions from what is happening in Europe.

What is set to happen is that Google, Twitter, Facebook (Meta), Instagram (Meta), Yahoo, etc. will fall in line (globally) with the most stringent country’s rules and regulations. Which would now be the EU. Otherwise, they end up having to set up parallel systems of operation. That is expensive and probably almost impossible to do at this point. Large companies like Twitter, TikTok and Meta will have to abide by the law’s content moderation standards to avoid harsh fines.

To disentangle this mess is going to be a big job for big tech and Congress.

Or it could be that market forces will come into play. For instance, if Twitter enacts a more stringent “free speech but not reach” policy, many will migrate back to GAB and Truth Social.