The European Union is expanding its enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which has been hardly criticized as a censorship tool. The ruling class, however, pushed the law through under the pretext of combating “hate speech.”

The law applies to all EU-wide legislation and incorporates national legislation from all member states. It also requires platforms to remove “illegal content,” including so-called “hate speech,” within 24 hours of being flagged as such. What constitutes “hate speech,” however, is often left to the discretion of EU bureaucrats and their allies in fact-checking organizations. It has commonly been anything that goes against the official narrative handed to the citizens by their rulers.

The application of this law means that content deemed illegal in one country – whether for allegedly promoting hate, offending religious sensibilities or challenging government narratives – can be removed across the entire bloc, as reported by Natural News. 

The EU is expanding its already massive censorship apparatus to enforce the DSA. By the end of 2025, the Commission plans to double its staff dedicated to DSA enforcement, bringing the total to 200. Additionally, the bloc is enlisting “local coordinators” in member states to ensure compliance. These measures are framed as necessary to protect democracy.

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The move comes as the EU appears increasingly concerned about free thoughts and ideas permeating the internet. Even major tech companies based in the United States, like X (formerly Twitter) and Meta (Facebook), have come out in support of free speech after, of course, railing against it, taking down accounts and putting “fact check” statuses on information the ruling class didn’t like.

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Ruling elitist, European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen recently declared that tech companies who are siding with a free speech narrative pose a “direct threat to European democracy.” Rulers do not like it when the people they are controlling have thoughts and ideas that would put them out of a position of power.

Leading up to its passage in 2022, the DSA was marketed as a way to regulate Big Tech and protect users from harmful content. But, so far, it has only been used to silence dissent and control the speech of the slave class.