EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed
What's VERY interesting here
Last few years the European Commission tried to censor speech on social media platforms with the Digital Services Act (DSA)
But it didn't really work, it caused so much outrage on here and elsewhere, thanks to all of you posting about it, that it became super unpopular
So I think the people behind all this thought "okay if we can't censor on EU level, let's just go national"
So now you see the Spanish PM announce they will change the laws to prosecute speech on social media platforms (specifically X), and on the same day French authorities are raiding the Telegram offices
What you see here is a consistent effort to take power over social media and chat channels because they're the dominant places where we exchange thoughts now
Nobody but boomers watch TV anymore which they still partly controlled via state media, so this is their attempt at taking back control
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