Schmitt Urges Sanctions over Foreign Censorship Threats to US

5 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by mikece

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benoau

8 hours ago

> European-style digital speech laws

AKA Meta and X have to disclose who is funding ads and why their algorithms served w/e content to you.

> these systems aim to “impose hard-left ideological strictures” on American discourse

The law (Digital Services Act) doesn't distinguish between left-wing and right-wing, but fostering political division and radicalizing vulnerable people seems a lot more likely to be done for right wing purposes and this kind of transparency undermines their effectiveness.

Another thing it does is ban advertising based on sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or political leanings, which "ironically" disproportionately affects one side more than the other too.