Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/

I'm pretty sure the CJEU in Russmedia just casually dismantled 80% of the DSA with one ill-considered judgment. As I read it, it substitutes in GDPR rules -- not notice and takedown rules -- for any platform where a user is likely to post content about people. 1/ curia.europa.eu/juris/docume... CURIA - Documents

Oh hell yes. This is like in a movie when two giant, comically inept, and heavily armed bad guys face off. MPA Sends Cease and Desist Let...

What if we all just agreed that "VLOP" stands for *both* Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines. If we actually need to distinguish them, we can revert to saying VLOPSEs or VLOPs/SEs any time we need to! But in the meantime we can use simpler language.