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The Foreign Censorship Threat: How the European Union’s(EU) Digital Services Act(DSA) Compels Global Censorship and Infringes on American Free Speech (judiciary.house.gov)
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Full Report.

  • The DSA is forcing companies to change their global content moderation policies. Nonpublic materials obtained by the Committee from the May 2025 workshop make clear that Commission regulators expect platforms to change their worldwide terms and conditions to comply with DSA obligations;
  • The DSA is being used to censor political speech, including humor and satire. Documents produced to the Committee under subpoena show that European censors target core political speech that is neither harmful nor illegal, attempting to stifle debate on topics such as immigration and the environment;
  • Exercises from the Commission's May 2025 workshop show the true definitions of key terms in the DSA and Commission regulators' censorship expectations of social media platforms. For example, the Commission's workshop labeled a hypothetical social media post stating "we need to take back our country"—a common, anodyne political statement—as "illegal hate speech" that platforms are required to censor under the DSA;
  • The censorship is largely one-sided, almost uniformly targeting political conservatives.
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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's right, American free speech ends at your country's borders, whether that's geographical or online.