21
Jan
2025
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Need to enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy on social media platforms including against foreign interference and biased algorithms (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am here to denounce the Digital Services Act, the DSA, which, under the guise of combating disinformation, institutionalises state censorship at European level. Indeed, this text flouts one of the fundamental principles of our democracies: freedom of expression, the once sacred principle that the DSA now seems to want to bury, sacrifice on the altar of an official truth, not always authentic, imposed by technocrats. By muzzling dissenting voices, this regulation does not protect citizens, it infantilizes them, it deprives them of their capacity for discernment. All censorship is an admission. We only gag the mouth that tells the truth. With the DSA, the European Union is only admitting its fear of the truth by constantly imposing ever more oppressive control tools. Also, I urge you to reject this authoritarian drift. Rather than censoring, let us defend the rights of European citizens to express themselves freely, without fear or institutional muzzle.