🚨 UK Online Safety Act in the EU - starting now? 🚨
It appears I had suspected right and big platforms will think the UK Online Safety Act equivalent for the EU has already been decided by the EU commission in July 2025, with a deadline of July 2026 (a few days). At least Reddit acts like it: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/50368431806484-European-Union-Digital-Services-Act-DSA
I talked about all of this here on lemmy, with more detailed explanations: https://leminal.space/post/31858818/21120139
How all of this went for the UK previously: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/09/uk-online-safety-act-internet-censorship-world-following-suit
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/6/britain-calls-it-safety-it-is-censorship
I'm worried this might be the beginning of the end of anonymous public discourse in the EU...
The US is also trying to do this with the KIDS Act, which has an 8% chance of becoming law over there.
This is how digital identification works.