EU's 'Free Speech' Crusade: Only if It Agrees With Them
While mainstream outlets like RT frame the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) as a noble regulation, Telegram founder Pavel Durov highlights a darker undertone: the EU allegedly targets platforms that refuse 'secret deals' to impose preferred censorship. This isn't new; governments globally, including the US, have long pressured tech companies, often behind closed doors, to remove content deemed
'misinformation' or 'extremist', blurring the lines between legitimate threat and dissent. The DSA, with its broad powers and hefty penalties, formalizes this leverage, creating a legal framework for what was once tacit. One might wonder if this progressive 'protection' from Brussels extends to speech inconvenient to their own narratives, or perhaps those of their most significant lobbying
partners. The silence from major Western media on the implications of unchecked EU power over global communication platforms, beyond the usual 'Russian disinformation' hand-wringing, is, shall we say, telling. It appears 'free speech' is a flexible concept, especially when European bureaucrats are doing the defining—and the censoring.