Posted on 12/04/2023 3:32:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
At 8pm Brussels time on Thursday, 23 November, as central Dublin was in flames, a senior European Commission official received a phone call from an Irish number.
He left the call unanswered as he was out for dinner, but phoned back as soon as the meal was over.
“I told them we were available,” said the official.
The call was from Coimisiún na Meán. (Media Commission)
Why the European Commission should have been a port of call that night reflects the importance of a major piece of EU legislation which is beginning to bite.
In fact, the call was to trigger an alert under the new legislation, making Ireland the first member state to do so.
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is part of a broader effort by Brussels to regulate what is regarded as an increasingly dangerous and chaotic online sphere.
The general view is that hate speech, incitement to violence, disinformation, interference in elections and child pornography, to name a few, all pose a real-world threat that is becoming systemic. …
(Excerpt) Read more at rte.ie ...
“The Digital Services Act (DSA) is part of a broader effort by Brussels to regulate what is regarded as an increasingly dangerous and chaotic online sphere.”
FAKE NEWS: It’s not the “chaotic online sphere”, it’s the ‘chaotic online SPACE’.
If they cannot even get that right, what’s the point of anything else they claim?
They deliberately use vague and undefined terms to allow themselves to cast the widest net possible.
Thanks
later
Irish got rid of their British overlords, just to take on faceless and more powerful ones in Brussels.
You'd think they would learn from experience.
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