Talking Europe - 'There's a Lot of Misunderstanding' on Freedom of Speech: EU Tech Sovereignty Commissioner

Talking Europe - 'There's a lot of misunderstanding' on freedom of speech: EU tech sovereignty commissioner

Our guest's job did not exist until the current European Commission was formed. Now the college has a portfolio for "tech sovereignty, security and democracy" held by the Finnish Commissioner, Henna Virkkunen. We ask her what tech sovereignty means and how to boost it, amid an increasingly fraught tech relationship between the EU and the US administration of President Donald Trump. We also talk about the EU's overall strategy to increase innovat…

European Commissioner for Technological Sovereignty, Henna Virkunen, told Eurative that American digital giants remove more content from their platforms according to their own terms and conditions than does the European Union...

EXCLUSIVE: US limits free speech more than the EU, says tech commissioner

“Often in the US, platforms have more strict rules with content,” Virkkunen said.

EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen says that far more online content is being removed in the EU under the T&Cs of US platforms than as a result of the DSA

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Censorship Creep: EU Cites Silicon Valley To Justify Online Speech Control

In an attempt to defend the controversial Digital Services Act (DSA), European Commissioner for Technology Henna Virkkunen has shifted the focus toward the United States. In a recent interview, she claimed that U.S.-based platforms remove far more content based on their terms and conditions than is required under European legislation. Yet her argument, rather than being persuasive, reveals a deeper problem: the growing normalization of instituti…

Much more online content is removed under the terms of use of U.S. social media platforms than under EU regulations, said EU Commissioner for Technology, Henna Virkkunen, responding to criticism of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA).