A wide-ranging report into the ‘German Censorship Network’ was released earlier this week, documenting the “unusually close” relationship between the German government and organisations that present themselves as independent, such as foundations, fact-checkers, think-tanks and NGOs.
Sound familiar? It could be where we’re headed, thanks to the European Commission’s firmly guiding hand, which is heavily influenced by the German approach to information management and conversation control, an approach that’s already spreading out into the rest of the Union via mechanisms like the controversial Digital Services Act (DSA) and threatens to go further with still-debated measures like ‘Chat Control’.
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