EU IS WORKING TO CENSOR THE INTERNET – Investment Watch

MORE – The provisional settlement on the “Digital Companies Act” reached immediately is topic to approval by the EU Council and the European Parliament.t.co/eauhj037o5

— Disclose.television (@disclosetv) April 23, 2022

E.U. Censor the web act.

The European Union is working to massively increase on-line censorship, strictly regulate speech throughout instances of “disaster” and prohibit on-line anonymity by means of digital passports.

The Digital Companies Act (DSA) — the second a part of a large mission to manage tech firms — goals to make sure harder penalties for platforms and web sites that host a protracted checklist of banned content material starting from hate speech to disinformation and little one sexual abuse pictures.

“What is illegitimate offline can also be unlawful on-line.
Now it’s an actual factor – not a slogan anymore.

That is what we now have achieved : an settlement on the #DigitalServicesAct that’s even higher than the proposal we tabled two years in the past.”

EVP @vestagerpic.twitter.com/COZHv1DjJV

— European Fee 🇪🇺 (@EU_Commission) April 23, 2022

Hers the act

ec.europa.eu/information/websites/default/information/proposal_for_a_regulation_on_a_single_market_for_digital_services.pdf

‘Trying over the define of the brand new settlement it’s hanging how they seamlessly conflate little one sexual abuse materials with “unlawful hate speech.” Each are jumbled in as “unlawful content material.” The regulation requires plans to limit free speech on the web throughout instances of “disaster.”

Killary is in favour…

For too lengthy, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability. The EU is poised to do one thing about it.

I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Companies Act throughout the end line and bolster world democracy earlier than it is too late.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 21, 2022

Obama like the thought too!

Unimaginable second from immediately: @BarackObama touts the EU’s Digital Companies Act #DSA as a option to “regulate the abuses which can be seen in Massive Tech firms.”

And he calls on the US to “discover our voice within the world dialog.” pic.twitter.com/0HZ9mHHFDz

— Accountable Tech (@accountabletech) April 21, 2022

Earlier:

Canada authorities official Mélanie Joly: Canada wants wartime #censorship of web #GreatReset

Canada wants wartime #censorship of web, @MelanieJoly tells MPs: “My mandate as  @CanadaFP Minister is actually to counter propaganda on-line” t.co/EHzk3Tt8Mt #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/HyX1yiXrSW

— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) March 28, 2022

Supervisor @Safety_Canada claims #FreedomConvoy threatened “social cohesion” on the web with “unfavorable and disruptive” phrases t.co/yR22y8oUut #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/IrT3LuXYeU

— Blacklock’s Reporter (@mindingottawa) March 28, 2022

h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal