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EU calls “censorship” allegations from Washington “pure nonsense”

The EU Commission has sharply rejected new “censorship” allegations from Washington. “Pure nonsense,” a spokesman for the EU Commission reacted on Tuesday to a 160-page doc from the Justice Committee within the US House of Representatives, wherein the EU is accused of a “decade-long campaign of censorship of the global Internet”. The Republican-led committee had just lately printed the doc.

The foremost goal of the accusations from Washington is the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). With the regulation, the EU requires giant digital corporations to delete prohibited content material on their platforms. The precept: What is forbidden and even punishable in on a regular basis life can be not permitted on the Internet. These embrace loss of life threats, youngster abuse images, sedition and Nazi symbols.

“After ten years, the European Commission has gained enough control over global expression online to comprehensively suppress narratives that threaten its power,” the US doc says. It accommodates quite a few beforehand unverified emails between EU Commission officers and representatives of digital corporations, which the committee says it requested from the businesses.

“Freedom of expression is a fundamental right in Europe,” mentioned the Commission spokesman on Tuesday. “The Digital Services Act protects this right against the large digital companies,” he emphasised, referring, amongst different issues, to Brussels investigations towards the Meta group, which owns the Instagram and Facebook platforms. Meta had beforehand launched algorithms that suppress political content material on the platforms and subsequently show it much less ceaselessly.

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