The EU is Days Away From Dictating What People Can See Online

Let's face it. The European Union (EU) is no longer at the forefront of much of anything (positive) these days - technologically speaking, it has painted itself into something of an irrelevancy corner.

But, observers say, its schemes enabling mass online censorship efforts and related "innovations" are not only proceeding according to plan, but have a chance of catching on around the world, putting the EU on the map in this less than flattering light.

The legislation that is now in focus in this context is the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), which has set August 25 of this year as the deadline for compliance.

The act has been around for a while - as well as serious concerns and criticism about its impact, in Europe itself. But now the rest of the world is waking up to the scale of it all, considering that by late August, all the so-called very large online platforms (VLOPs, in EU-speak) and very large online engines (VLOSEs, in the same dystopian-esque language) are supposed to start toeing the line.

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