The U.S. State Department has moved to sanction five figures in Europe, Thierry Breton among them—another overdue slap at the well-heeled architects of the censorship-industrial complex.
Brilliant piece mapping out the transatlantic censorship pipeline. The NGO intermediary layer is genius from a legal standpoint because it lets governments claim clean hands while bankrolling the exact groups doing their dirty work. What gets me is how theDSA basically institutionalized what used to be ad hoc pressure, turning informal requests into formal obligations with the threat of fines. I remmeber when a few EU officials would quietly call platform execs, now it's codified into law with an entire bureaucracy to enforce compliance.
Brilliant piece mapping out the transatlantic censorship pipeline. The NGO intermediary layer is genius from a legal standpoint because it lets governments claim clean hands while bankrolling the exact groups doing their dirty work. What gets me is how theDSA basically institutionalized what used to be ad hoc pressure, turning informal requests into formal obligations with the threat of fines. I remmeber when a few EU officials would quietly call platform execs, now it's codified into law with an entire bureaucracy to enforce compliance.
Thank you. Did you read the Twitter Files France? It sets it all out.
https://www.civilizationworks.org/cw-master-blog/france-invented-the-censorship-industrial-complex-the-twitter-files-france-case-studies