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"I would be in favor of passing a law with some censorship in it if it had extremely strict safeguards, legal processes, and minimally-biased enforcement rather

"I would be in favor of passing a law with some censorship in it if it had extremely strict safeguards, legal processes, and minimally-biased enforcement rather than letting some random court make the law for me." This is what the DSA in the EU attempts to do: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_2348 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_... "As for the alternatives: Bitcoin, IPFS? I have very little hope." Good riddance from my part. As for "we can always use VPNs?" I wouldn't trust VPNs either. Pick your poison.

raxxorraxor 4y ago
EU net policies introduced by the commission for censorship attempts like chat control are extremely undemocratic and dangerous. It has an abysmal record here and it lacks democratic legitimacy in my opinion. This is plain to see if you look at the current commission president. The same flaws are also hidden in the DSA which has no positive side, but allows for deeper surveillance and exclusions of users.
- jruohonen 4y ago
  The chat control is another thing. I don't think they have censorship in mind with that thing. As for the DSA, I really see nothing in it that would entail "deeper surveillance and exclusions of users". Quite the contrary, the rights of users are extended substantially. Granted, it is not perfect and it was a really hard bargain. It is not easy to draft laws for the new digital era.