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The Far Right’s War on Content Moderation Comes to Europe
Dean Jackson and Berin Szóka ask, will the continent’s growing anti-regulatory mood and vocal right-wing prevail?
Tech Policy Press Contributing Editor Dean Jackson and TechFreedom President Berin Szóka ask, will Europe face US demands on social media regulation with defiant resistance, or will the continent’s growing anti-regulatory mood and vocal right-wing prevail? Reportedly enraged, President Trump promptly issued an “ Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship,” promising to use the full weight of the federal government to defend what he called “free speech.” His administration proposed various ways of cracking down on content moderation but lacked both time and loyalists willing to implement its ideas. Mark Scott, a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (and, as announced this week, also a Contributing Editor at Tech Policy Press), told us that the DMA — which seeks to break monopoly power and promote competition — could be an even “more existential risk in the short term,” because it rests on preexisting and well-understood antitrust concepts.
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