What's happening here is the EU is seeing every other major power lock down their internet, so why would they leave theirs open which would also allow foreign meddling?
Additionally the tech megacorps are trying to claim that they are open platforms and so shouldn't be responsible for user posted data while censoring and removing user posted data when it suits their economic means.
I'm a proponent of free speech, but the internet stopped being a bastion of free speech year ago. It's crazy to think that the EU was going to sit their and let companies do what they please, when those same companies we're already preventing users/EU citizens from doing so
It's easy to be trite, but it doesn't change the fact that foreign companies and governments were taking advantage of the EU while simultaneously having a different set of rules at home for EU companies. I think the EU overreacted her, hut it's hardly surprising that they had some sort of response
2. Forcing social media firms to delete specific kinds of content is another (albeit controversial) example.
3. Redacting all info about Saudi involvement in the 9-11 reports is a great example of censorship under the pretext of national security.
4. The SESTA/FOSTA bills are a recent (but again somewhat controversial) example.
5. Plenty of movies have been censored. One can easily google examples of this.
6. Many works of music too. Just ask the rappers.
7. Forbidding swear words in public/recorded speech is/was a great example. Although it is also an example of self-censorship among Americans.
