Fight for digital freedom: Austria's censorship debate escalated!

Fight for digital freedom: Austria's censorship debate escalated!

In the current government program of ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS, increased regulation of digital platforms and the further development of the controversial digital service Act are announced. Freedom EU MP Petra Steger criticizes this sharply and sees a great danger to freedom of expression in Austria. In their opinion, the planned legislation promotes a kind of digital mass surveillance and uses the pretext of combating disinformation to silence unpleasant opinions. "The Digital Services Act is the prestige project of the Leyen Commission," explains Steger and warns of the "censor fantasies of the EU", which are now to be implemented in Austria, as well as OTS reported.

Steger draws a worrying comparison to an incident in Romania, where a choice was canceled due to Tikok contributions and an entire country was plunged into a state crisis. In this case, the EU did not act as a defender of democracy, but on the contrary. This concern also nourishes from the fact that the Austrian government takes such measures as a model, which raises the question of whether this could not introduce a similar censorship system in Austria.

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