The EU deletes millions of posts every month

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By the time you read this, 10 posts were forcibly removed in the EUSSR.
8,000,000 posts per month are removed under the Digital Services Act. About 185 per minute, 3 per second.

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Platforms are legally forced to publish how much content they remove. This figure excludes entire outlets that are blanket banned, like Russian state media, which never make it into the statistics.

The Digital Services Act turns platforms into enforcement arms of the state. If they fail to remove content that regulators later decide is illegal, they face fines, audits, loss of liability protection, and regulatory harassment.
Delete first. Delete fast.

Speech that is lawful, factual, or merely inconvenient disappears because the cost of leaving it online exceeds the cost of censorship.

Criminal law already existed. Courts already existed. The DSA bypasses both by outsourcing enforcement to private companies under threat.
Preemptive suppression sold as safety.
 
Platforms delete posts.
Banks close accounts (randomly, justified by regulations, not by any suspicious activity).
What else?

Prosecution because your political views. Albeit not EUSSR same thing: happens a lot in the UK nowadays. Lots of people had to go to prison for several years because of 'offensive' posts. A more prominent example: look at Dries van Langenhove. A one-year prison sentence for participating in a group chat with right-wing memes. Clown state Belgium.
 

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