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Downvoters: is what this poster says broadly untrue or not?
👤bondarchuk🕑2y🔼0🗨️0
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What a nightmare. The state(s) are becoming total insane.
👤personomas🕑2y🔼0🗨️0
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You call it "censorship", I call it fighting disinformation, fear mongering and state-actor propaganda campaigns.
I would welcome measures that go a lot further than this.
👤mavu🕑2y🔼0🗨️0
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Consider, for instance, some of the key “disinformation trends” listed in the EDMO’s recent 2023 briefing on disinformation in Ireland. They include “nativist narratives” that “oppose migration”, “gender and sexuality narratives” that touch on drag queens and trans issues as “part of a wider ‘anti-woke’ narrative that mocks social justice campaigns”, and “environment narratives” that criticise climate-change policies and Greta Thunberg.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/25/the-digital-services-act...
This gives the EU an extraordinary amount of power. The regulation of the DSA will be overseen by the Commission itself, not an independent regulator. What’s more, the DSA includes a ‘crisis-management mechanism’, added last year in a last-minute amendment. The Commission argued it needs to be able to direct how platforms respond to events like the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Apparently, in a crisis, the ‘anticipatory or voluntary nature’ of obligations on tech companies to tackle disinformation would be insufficient. Under the DSA, the Commission has given itself the power to determine whether such a ‘crisis’ exists, defined as ‘an objective risk of serious prejudice to public security or public health in the Union’.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/the-eus-censorship-...