>>513613366I'm not a fan of the increasingly draconian and censor-happy laws the EU and our member states impose on each other.
But it sadly has a pragmatic purpose.
Social Media is being overrun by propagandaists funded by China and Russia right now. Wikipedia articles are being rewritten with selective Russian talking points and people aren't picking up on it before they read it (but you can see it in edit history and what gets added or removed)
People are abusing anonymity to browse child porn, so it's not as though they don't have a case against privacy, since it's being abused en masse.
I'm not a big fan of the ProtectEU or ChatControl, or the Online Safety Acts or Digital ID shit, but it's literally happening because there's a failure of globalism happening in real-time, and a security threat imposed by our biggest suppliers in the United States, which gives rise to not just Far Right but political parties funded and paid for by BRICS opportunists, and our only way of surviving that BRICS takeover is to start hyper-policing online services.
But it's a risk because it comes off as the Government knowing better than the public but... clearly they do, since way too many people are uncritically consuming various "anti-woke" channels under the assumption it's still about cultural dialogue, or "economics" when it's really about the russian ideology getting spread and normalized, one Triggernometry podcast at a time. One X post at a time. One "legitimate News Source" at a time.
