LEAKED: EU plans to combat “hate speech” across ISPs, cloud hosting, social media, and “economy services”

The European Union (EU) seems, once gain, hell-bent on regulating every corner of the internet. This time, with what it will call its Digital Services Act.

There's been much opposition to EU's recent adoption of the Copyright Directive, that relies on protecting copyrighted material with "upload filters and intermediary liability."

One of the reasons this was such a bad idea is that it might have been simply testing the waters and was always likely to spawn more restrictive policies elsewhere.

According to a leaked report obtained by Netzpolitik, a German blog, the European Commission (EC) is now preparing a new Digital Services Act - interpreted as an attempt to replace the e-Commerce directive passed in 2000.

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