🇬🇧 Ursula von der Leyen has been continuously eroding our fundamental rights. In the past five years, her EU Commission proposed:
❌the end of private messaging and secure encryption #ChatControl
❌introducing unique citizen identifiers #eID
❌a working group to resurrect indiscriminate #DataRetention #EUGoingDark
❌essentially unchanged online tracking & micro-targeting practices #DSA #politicalAds
❌legalising #Europol's unlawful bulk data collection practices
❌ultra-fast cross-border online content removals without court orders #TERREG
❌allowing for #biometricMassSurveillance in the #AIAct
❌granting industry access to our #healthdata without our consent #EHDS
Von der Leyen’s Europe needs digital freedom fighters! #Pirates
@echo_pbreyer Personally, I think that people underestimate the capacity for nastiness from the DSA.
Quite a few member states don't protect freedom of expression well (or always well), emboldening them with a mechanism to drive censorship doesn't seem like a good idea.
While they, of course, could already do censorship through various means, the DSA streamlines it, and that is why I think it is bad. But, then, maybe that just exposes a deeper issue?
