The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA), according to the ADF International, will give the EU authority, permission to target lawful expression, and consequently ‘threaten free speech’. It then goes on to argue that it literally ‘undermines the very democratic principles it claims to protect’. The legislation is ‘vague and imprecise’, which it says ‘incentivises a system where the harshest of censorship laws become the global standard’ (EU-DSA, p.18)
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About the Author
Thomas Fazi is an independent researcher, writer and journalist based in Rome.
He is the author of several books, including:
The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent – and How We Can Take It Back (Pluto Press, 2014);
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World (co-authored with Bill Mitchell; Pluto Press, 2017); and The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left (co-authored with Toby Green; Hurst, 2023). He is a columnist for UnHerd and Compact.