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> European authorities held a “DSA MultiStakeholder Workshop” in Brussels, intended to help major platforms like Meta, X, and Google understand their obligation
by like_any_other 1y ago
> European authorities held a “DSA MultiStakeholder Workshop” in Brussels, intended to help major platforms like Meta, X, and Google understand their obligations under the DSA. As Jordan notes, the seminar was closed to the public, unlike previous seminars about laws like the Digital Markets Act. Participants of the new event were specifically warned not to describe the seminar’s “exercise scenarios,” but Jordan’s committee got hold of key documents.
We are ruled by secret laws - it doesn't get more incriminating than that. The censor is never satisfied with mere censorship - he wants to keep the censorship itself secret. To deceive people into thinking it's reasonable and limited.
The article's perspective is American, but as a European, I want to know what authority permits the EU to police speech in its member states, covertly, without informing them or their citizens?
"Some of the most upsetting examples:" - the article abruptly paywalls here, but examples can be found on Jim Jordan's twitter, which quotes directly from the congressional report:
https://x.com/jim_jordan/status/1948730617803296910 https://x.com/jim_jordan/status/1948730617803296910
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-07/DSA_Report&Appendix(07.25.25).pdf https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-j... (also linked within the article)